Content Modeling and Structured Writing

Content Modeling and Structured Writing teaches you how to create content models and the content supported by those models. Content models define how information products are structured to support reuse and consistency, they identify where information products will share reusable content, and indicate what metadata applies to each element. Structured writing provides the standards for how to structure and write each element identified in your models. In this workshop, you will learn techniques for creating XML-ready content models that support content reuse in a structured authoring environment and how to create writing guidelines to support these models. In addition we will talk about the emerging XML-based structured content standards like DITA, XBRL and SPL.

You will learn:

• The role of a unified content/single sourcing strategy
• The relationship between content management and structure
• How to create:
• Information product models
• Element models
• Structural reuse maps
• Content reuse maps
• Metadata
• Writing to a information model; understanding the difference between structure of information products and structure of content
• The fundamental concepts of content reuse, including the types of reuse
• Structured writing concepts, as they relate to content reuse
• Separating content from format
• Using the building block approach to accommodate various uses for content
• Managing change, including collaborative authoring and changing roles for authors

Objectives

At the end of this workshop you will:

• Create content models (information product models, element models, reuse maps, metadata)
• Create structured writing guidelines
• Write reusable structured content