Useful Differences in Information Design Between Technical Communication and the Arts  

Technical communicators may optimize their instructional material for delivery through media rather than face-toface, for users’ understanding of conceptual material over their taking action, and for adequate performance after a minimal period of learning. The arts approach instruction quite differently and technical communicators may gain a more comprehensive view of their own work by looking at arts instruction. This article compares technical communication and arts approaches based on interviews with 35 professionals.

Krull, Robert. STC Proceedings (1996). Presentations>Information Design>TC

What's Happening: Theory and Research  

What will the 'document of the future' look like? What will be the new balance between text and other channels of communication?

Farkas, David K. STC Orange County (1998). Presentations>Information Design>Hypertext

Windows Presentation Foundation Project - Basics of Working

The tutorial introduces the reader accustomed to working with the traditional graphic user interface in earlier versions of VB to Windows Presentation Foundation. Importantly, it introduces the reader to the XAML's declarative format and what it means in the design interface of VS 2008. WPF can do a great deal more than what is described in this article. The power of markup extensions such as declarative binding, dynamic resource, template binding and many others are not discussed. It is hoped that the reader will be up and running WPF projects based on his previous experience after reading this article.

Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2008). Design>Presentations>Information Design>Microsoft Windows

Workshop: Information Design  

Information design is the process of organizing information and presenting it to the user in the most meaningful format.

Deshpande, Shashank. STC India (2003). Presentations>Information Design

XIA@UT: An Extreme Makeover  

A presentation about applying concepts from extreme programming (XP) to the IA redesign of a web site (=XIA).

Burkart, Jill, Don Turnbull, Amaris Vigil, Andrew Switzky, Diana Miranda and Leonard Liaw. IAsummit (2004). Presentations>Information Design>Programming

XML and Single Sourcing  

Single sourcing your information enables you to create materials for multiple media (paper, online), multiple types of documentation (user documentation, Help, training), multiple users and multiple products. XML is a new information format that supports the creation of single source materials. This session looks at how XML enables you to create single source materials, it is not an XML 'how to.'

Rockley, Ann and Steve Manning. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Information Design>Single Sourcing

XML Basics for Technical Communicators  

What is XML? Cross-platform, software and hardware independent tool for storing information. A subset of SGML. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served and processed on the Web in a way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.

Pujar, Amit. STC India (2003). Presentations>Information Design>TC>XML

XML Holds Potential to Transform Data Transport  

XML is a language for creating data-description languages.

Jorda, Craig. STC Four Lakes (2000). Presentations>Information Design>XML

Yahoo! Pattern Library

Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, and Chanel Wheeler presented their work creating a pattern library for Yahoo! at IA Summit 2005.

IxDA Resource Library (2005). Presentations>Information Design>Case Studies

"Yes, But Does it Scale?": Practical Considerations for Database-Driven Information Systems    

This paper explores the process of designing and implementing a database-driven system of online documentation, and putting it live on the web for customers to use. Using real-life examples, it discusses practical considerations for balancing performance, scalability, and reliability.

Russell, John. ACM SIGDOC (2001). Presentations>Information Design>Documentation

You and Me: Making Technical Communication Personal

Text of talk presented at the 48th International Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Chicago, IL, May 2001. We are moving toward an audience of one. Beyond the great mass. Beyond niches, micromarkets, subgroups, demographic clusters. Communicating with one person at a time.

Price, Jonathan R. Communication Circle, The. Presentations>Information Design>Personalization

Your Dais Will Come  

Keep calm for presentations by taking a little PDF.

Thompson, Audrey. Adobe Magazine (1999). Presentations>Information Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat

Metadata and XML: Improving the Findability of Information   

Information about objects on subjects - metadata describes objects. Purposes: Information management and discovery. Metadata enables content to be retreived, tracked, and assembled automatically.

Bogaards, Peter J. Tekom (2004). Presentations>Information Design>Metadata>XML

Metadata: The Art of Adding Signposts  

Why do we add metadata? To find information back. To investigate the source. To see what is related. To have an overview AND see what is relevant.

Dey Alexander (2004). Presentations>Information Design>Metadata

Location, Path and Attribute Breadcrumbs

Research on breadcrumbs as presented at the 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit. Three types of breadcrumbs used on the Web are defined, examples given, and a set of research questions is presented.

Instone, Keith. Instone.org (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Information Design

Information Architecture and Personalized User Experiences  

The information architect focuses on how things are structured within the user experience: looks “up” to the user interface – how the navigation and page layout convey the structure; looks “down” to the content management to make sure it can enable to right user experience.

Instone, Keith. Instone.org (2003). Presentations>Web Design>Information Design>Personalization

Games To Explain Human Factors: Come, Participate, Learn and Have Fun!!!

Photo albums from previous presentations of Games To Explain Human Factors.

Shapiro, Ronald G. SlideShare (2008). Presentations>Human Computer Interaction>Information Design>Cognitive Psychology

Essential Tools of an XML Workflow

This webcast is for those publishers who have made the decision to pursue digital channels for their content. What tools are out there? What do all those acronyms mean? How can publishers implement new strategies without disrupting current workflows? Here we explore the alphabet soup of digital publishing, sort out the tools that are most useful, and help publishers find some solid ground.

Dawson, Laura. O'Reilly and Associates (2009). Presentations>Information Design>XML>Video

How Tellabs Uses XML

In the evolving and demanding world of telecommunications, Tellabs supports telecom service providers with the design, development, and deployment of wireline, wireless , and cable solutions worldwide. But with each unique solution deployment requires knowledge transfer from engineers to field service staff to ensure a smooth system upgrade. Learn how Tellabs' New Product Introduction group used DITA to transition to customer-centric writing. *What are the key things the organization as a whole should keep in mind regarding processes?"

Insight24 (2008). Presentations>Information Design>Case Studies>XML

XML Overview

This presentation is a 90 minute session. It will cover many areas of XML and XML technologies. It has been constructed to provide the audience a broad understanding of XML and XML technologies in a short amount of time. The presentation is geared to ensure that new XML users can obtain the maximum benefit from other sessions presented at XML 2004. The attendees will gain an understanding of XML jargon and acronyms used in XML technologies, as well.

Harvey, Betty. IDEAlliance (2004). Presentations>Information Design>Standards>XML

The Xquery Language and the DITA Open Toolkit

Xquery is a powerful query language designed specifically for XML content. It can be used for querying, processing, manipulation, and transformation of xml content. This presentation demonstrates how Xquery can be used to add to the feature set of the Dita Open Toolkit by introducing automatic glossary processing.

XML.org (2009). Presentations>Information Design>XSL>DITA

Moving Forward with DITA 1.2 and the DITA-OT

DITA enters a new phase this year with version 1.2. We'll learn about the big new features, such as keyref, and see them used in the latest DITA Open Toolkit. Attendees will know how to make use of new DITA 1.2 features using the DITA Open Toolkit. Attendees will understand key aspects of the new DITA 1.2 standard.

Anderson, Robert. STC Proceedings (2009). Presentations>Information Design>XML>DITA

Developing DITA Maps  

DITA maps provide a mechanism for ordering topics and creating a topic hierarchy. Because DITA maps consist of lists of references to topics, you can reorganize the content in a deliverable simply by changing the order of the topic references. You can create different maps referencing the same source topics to create two deliverables to meet different users' needs.

Linton, Jen. ComTech Services (2006). Presentations>Information Design>XML>DITA

Just Put That In The Zip Code Field: The Ins and Outs of Content Modeling

How closely does the content in your CMS resemble the logical content you planned on? # Different systems have vastly different content modeling.

SlideShare (2009). Presentations>Content Management>Information Design