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In 2006, Business Objects faced a major challenge. How to migrate over 50,000 pages of unstructured non-topic based documentation it had acquired through rapid growth and acquisitions. The answer was to use DITA to standardize content creation, management, translation and publishing processes company-wide. In this short podcast, David Holmes talks about how he and his team migrated 50,000 unstructured pages to DITA. (DITA is an XML architecture that allows you to better single source your content.) View all 65 works published by Tech Writer Voices |
 Moving 50,000 Pages of Unstructured Content to DITA http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/05/06/podcast-moving-to-dita/
Holmes, David and Tom H. Johnson Tech Writer Voices 2008
Abstract: In 2006, Business Objects faced a major challenge. How to migrate over 50,000 pages of unstructured non-topic based documentation it had acquired through rapid growth and acquisitions. The answer was to use DITA to standardize content creation, management, translation and publishing processes company-wide. In this short podcast, David Holmes talks about how he and his team migrated 50,000 unstructured pages to DITA. (DITA is an XML architecture that allows you to better single source your content.)

| Reviews | | EVB | a good summary This podcast bears good witness to the massive effort it took to streamline our publishing process in DITA. |
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