Systematic Documentation Lifecycle Management

(Also contributed to CIDM Newsletter)

In November 2011,The Center of Information-Development Management organized the seventh annual Content Management Strategies/ DITA Europe conference in the historic center of Prague, the capital of Czech Republic.

This event offered a great opportunity for the participants to gain insights into effective implementation of topic-based information management through experts who presented their experiences, complex challenges and innovative, successful solutions.

While in former DITA events, most talks centered around the principles of DITA/topic-oriented documentation and how organizations were starting and succeeding with first projects, in this event, it became clear that the topic-oriented approach has become a mature, highly adopted standard in most industries. Many interesting use cases and successful implementations, also going beyond technical documentation,  along with some motivating ideas around DITA were presented. (more…)