Overcoming DITA Content
Management Challenges
with DITAToo
By
Amit Siddhartha & Alex Masycheff
STC-India Chapter Annual
Conference 2012
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About Presenters
• Amit Siddhartha:
– Owner & Consultant at Metapercept Information
Solutions & Consulting
– Expert in DITA, XSLT, structured authoring, single
sourcing, usability, and Information Mapping
– Implementation Partner of DITAToo in India
• Alex Masycheff:
– CEO at DITAToo
– Expert in DITA, content management, single sourcing,
and technical documentation
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Agenda
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Why DITA?
DITA Challenges
How DITAToo Meet these Challenges
DITAToo in Action (Live Demo)
DITAToo Licensing
Questions and Answers
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Why DITA?
• Less time required to develop documentation due to
powerful content reuse capabilities
• Enforces consistent structure and formatting across all the
documents
• More focus on content development by Technical Writers
• Easy content customization
• Reduced translation costs
• Flexible & customizable as per requirement
• Improved single sourcing
• Immense community support
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DITA Challenges
• Migrating to DITA, as contents are topic based
• Understanding of element and conflict between
DITA structures and document structure
• Maintaining link integrity
• Searching
• Tracking content reuse
• Managing content variations
• High costs for DITA content management tools
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DITAToo Overview
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DITAToo is a DITA Content Management, Publishing &
Automation System
Central content repository
DITA editors agnostic
Tight integration with FrameMaker 11
Built-in Word-to-DITA converter
Link management
Full-text and metadata-based search
Content reuse tracking
Content variations management
Integration with DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT)
Version control
and more...
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How It Works
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DITAToo Live Demo
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Uploading DITA to the DITAToo content repository
Automatic Word-to-DITA conversion
Link management
Search
Re-arranging DITA
Publishing and single sourcing
Managing content reuse
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DITAToo Licenses
Licenses
Includes..
1st License
DITAToo Administrator for Content Administrators +
DITAToo Author for the Technical Writer
Any subsequent licenses
DITAToo Author for Technical Writers
Non-DITA Administrator
DITAToo Aranger for Information Mapping Experts
or Publishers
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DITAToo Pricing
Licenses
Pricing
1st License
$ 950
Any subsequent licenses
$ 750
Non-DITA Administrator
$ 350
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Any Questions?
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Thank you!
To know more about DITA solutions or DITAToo
Contact us at:
alex@ditatoo.com
info@metapercept.com
Visit us at:
www.ditatoo.com
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LinkedIn: DITAToo Community
Twitter: @DITAToo1
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