Astoria Software Highlights Advantages of DITA Information Standard for Manufacturers.DITA 2007-West Attendees to Learn How to Reduce Costs and Speed Time to Market with Technical Product Documentation SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Driving efficiencies in dynamic publishing, Astoria Software will highlight how Forbes Global 2000 manufacturers can leverage the Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. The name of the architecture can be explained as follows:
DITA is an information standard established by OASIS, a non-profit consortium that creates global standards for e-business and structured content. By supporting this standard, Astoria enables customers to establish a common information model that maximizes content reuse and content interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. where documentation published by one manufacturer can be readily incorporated into that of another manufacturer, a channel partner, or an approved third party. As a platinum sponsor at DITA 2007-West, Astoria will demonstrate: * How technical writers can easily edit and manage documentation within a DITA-based environment by managing content as individual components or "topics" * How subject matter experts can review content "topics" with a Web-based workflow tool * How technical publishing managers can compose and publish DITA "topics" into deliverables, such as online help or PDFs from Astoria's Web-hosted content management system "Working closely with the OASIS DITA Technical Committee has put Astoria at the forefront of DITA standard development, particularly as it relates to today's product documentation challenges," said Dan Ortega, vice president of marketing for Astoria Software. "Supporting the DITA standard has been a longstanding priority for us, and we are committed to helping manufacturers in fiercely competitive markets find opportunities to reduce the cost and time needed to update and publish technical information in a continually changing environment." Showing further support for DITA, Astoria also sponsored and participated in a DITA Boot Camp Software from Apple that enables an Intel x86-based Macintosh to host the Windows XP operating system. Boot Camp is used to divide the hard disk into Windows and Mac partitions, to install the necessary drivers and to create a dual boot environment. Workshop last week led by Dr. JoAnn Hackos, who is both president of Comtech Services, a content-management and information-design firm, and director of The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM CIDM Customer Integrated Decision Making CIDM Certified Insurance Data Manager CIDM Collaborative Identity Management CIDM Cisco Intrusion Detection Module CIDM Community-Initiated Decision-Making CIDM Center for International Development and Conflict Management ). The Workshop covered DITA basics to expert-level topics. For more information on DITA 2007-West, please visit http://www.travelthepath.com/dita2007/dita2007.shtml. For more information on Astoria Software, please visit www.astoriasoftware.com. About Astoria Software Astoria Software drives efficiencies in dynamic product documentation with on-demand delivery of structured content management. GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. , NCR/Teradata, Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , and other Forbes Global 2000 manufacturers rely on Astoria to meet rigorous market demands -- increasing product volumes, accelerating time-to-market, and concurrent global customization. Astoria reduces documentation costs up to 90% and compresses product launch cycles from months to weeks. Astoria Software is based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . For more information, visit www.astoriasoftware.com. Related Links DITA 2007-West http://www.travelthepath.com/dita2007/dita2007.shtml OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita DITA Boot Camp Workshop http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/ditabootcamp.shtml Dr. JoAnn Hackos Biography http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/instructors.shtml#joann Comtech http://www.comtech-serv.com/index.shtml The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/ |
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