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Information Management
News
Volume 6, Issue 6
June 2006
A monthly e-newsletter from The Center for Information-Development
Management (CIDM)
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD, CIDM Director
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com
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News & Events
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Registration is now open for the 2006
Best Practices conference to be held September 18–20,
2006, in San Diego, California. More information on the program
will be coming soon!
Comtech
and Vasont Webinar
Join us for this free webinar hosted by Vasont
Systems. For more information and to register, please visit
the Vasont
web site.
Comtech
Services Releases DITA User Guide
We are accepting orders for Introduction
to DITA: A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture. Order
your copy today!
Host
a Workshop
Organizations that host a workshop in the JoAnn
Hackos Workshop Series receive four registrations for the
price of one. Find
out how to become a host.
JoAnn
Hackos and Jen Linton to Speak at X-Pubs 2006
For information on these presentations and
discounts offered at X-Pubs 2006, read
the announcement.
LISA
Asia Forum
Read about JoAnn's presentation and LISA's
Asia Forum at www.lisa.org.
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Upcoming Workshops
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CIDM sponsors the following workshops:
Minimalism:
Creating Manuals That People Can Use
JoAnn Hackos, PhD,
July 11–12
King of Prussia, PA
DITA:
Getting Started
Jen Linton,
July 25–26
San Diego, CA
XML
for Writers
Kylene Bruski,
September 12–13
San Diego, CA
For more information on these and other workshops,
visit the JoAnn
Hackos Workshop Series web site.
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Do We Really Need All that
Glue?
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
CIDM Director
www.infomanagementcenter.com
The Technical Committee for the OASIS DITA Standard has
been having an interesting debate this month. The debate concerns the
need for "glue text" in technical manuals. Glue text is defined as transitional
information intended to inform readers of what has come before or comes
after a particular procedure, description, or explanation. In topic-oriented
authoring, which forms the basis for the DITA Model, transitional text
has become problematic. If the goal is to write standalone topics that
may be used in more than one context, where does one put the transitional
text? Does transitional text belong in a topic by itself? Should it be
built into a task, concept, or reference topic? Does transitional text
belong in the map so that it does not encumber the standalone topics?
Read
the article
More articles
Estimating,
Tracking, and Scheduling
Dawn Stevens, Jeppesen
I love numbers! They tell me so many things, and I can use
them to do so many things. For example, numbers tell me when my project
will be done and how much it will cost. Numbers point out that I'm over
budget but also help me justify why. The manipulation of numbers can help
me achieve pretty much anything I need as I run my department. I might
even be able to convince some of you that 2+2 = 5 for large values of
2.
Read
the article
Advanced
Process Mapping–Architectures and Modularity
Vesa Purho, Nokia
In my three previous articles, I went through the basic
concepts of swimlane process mapping. Now it is time to introduce some
advanced concepts. Just like information and applications, processes can
also have architectures which can be modular.
Read
the article
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