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Better Contracts and Proposals with DITA
Solutions consultant and OASIS DITA Technical Committee member Su-Laine Yeo explains how DITA’s content-reuse model can maximize data efficiency and prevent costly errors.
A Web by Any Other Name: Why We Need to Know About the Semantic Web
Richard Oppenheim, CPA, and Unlimited Priorities team member, discusses the significance of the emergent semantic web and why it may arrive sooner than we think.
Interview with Deep Web Technologies’ Abe Lederman
Abe Lederman, President and CEO of Deep Web Technologies, discusses federated search, the deep web, and the future of information retrieval. (Interview by Barbara Quint, Editor-in-Chief of Searcher magazine and Unlimited Priorities team member.)
The DCL Introduction to Aviation DTDs
DCL breaks down the differences between ATA specifications in this brief introduction to aviation DTDs.
From PDF to E-Book: Problems and Solutions for PDF to ePub Conversions
As the e-book business starts to boom in earnest (see Coming Soon: The Dawn of the Digital Textbook and E-Books, iPads, and the Next-Big-Thing), many publishers find themselves needing to convert their PDF documents to the e-reader-friendly ePub standard. In this article, DCL identifies some common problems found in PDF-to-ePub conversions and explains how they can be best averted.
Dan Tonkery on the iPad and the Future of Technical Publications
President of Content Strategies and Unlimited Priorities contributor Dan Tonkery discusses the implications of the iPad on the technical documentation industry.
The DCL Guide to Public Domain DTDs
A few years ago, if you needed structured documentation, your only option was to create the structure yourself—or else pay a consultant to develop one for you. While making your own DTD may produce a structure customized to your needs, it also requires a lot of knowledge, time, and effort (among other costs).
Barbara Quint on Federated Search: Good Ideas Never Die, They Just Change Their Names
“I don’t want to search! I want to find!!” “Just give me the answer, but make sure it’s right and that I’m not missing anything.” In a world of end-user searchers, that’s what everyone wants, a goal that can explain baldness among information industry professionals and search software engineers. Tearing your hair out isn’t good for the scalp.
Yahoo Talks Semantics
Even Yahoo admits that it can’t beat Google search at its own game. But Google doesn’t do everything. Using the limitations of the search giant’s famous algorithm as a jumping-off point, Yahoo is exploring the potential of the semantic web in its effort to give Google a little competition…
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