Comments on: Moving to Structured Content in A Crazy Ad-hoc World http://www.author-it.com/blog/2008/12/03/moving-to-structured-content-in-a-crazy-ad-hoc-world/ The Author-it Software Corporation Corporate Blog Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dexter Blackstock http://www.author-it.com/blog/2008/12/03/moving-to-structured-content-in-a-crazy-ad-hoc-world/#comment-2127 Dexter Blackstock Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:29:07 +0000 http://www.author-it.com/blog/?p=481#comment-2127 An excellent outline of the benefits of structured authoring. Unfortunately I couldn't download the video (must be a 'mac thing') but you are correct in that one of the biggest "Hidden Monsters" is the one that jumps out from behind a pile of content in the "to be re-written to comply with DITA" file. In our case we did indeed take one look at our non-compliant data post-audit and decide it was easy to start afresh. Structure Authoring as a tool, as well as the disciplines it encourages can only be a good thing, especially those of use already knee-deep in Framemaker :o) I love blogs - it's so refreshing to to be able to get ones point across with a handful of dodgy metaphors for once! An excellent outline of the benefits of structured authoring. Unfortunately I couldn’t download the video (must be a ‘mac thing’) but you are correct in that one of the biggest “Hidden Monsters” is the one that jumps out from behind a pile of content in the “to be re-written to comply with DITA” file. In our case we did indeed take one look at our non-compliant data post-audit and decide it was easy to start afresh. Structure Authoring as a tool, as well as the disciplines it encourages can only be a good thing, especially those of use already knee-deep in Framemaker :o )

I love blogs – it’s so refreshing to to be able to get ones point across with a handful of dodgy metaphors for once!

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