September 2 Taxonomy CoP: DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy

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DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy

Taxonomy Community of Practice SeriesWednesday September 2nd, 1:00 PM ET

Paul Wlodarczyk

Director, Solutions Consulting, Earley & Associates

Erik Hennum

Information Model Architect, IBM

Robert Berry

Information Developer, IBM

Mike Harris

Information Architect, IBM


DITA creates smaller needles in a bigger haystack

• If you had 1000 documents under management, each with 100 reusable parts (e.g. procedures), now you have 100,000 objects under management

• You can browse folders to find things – but that only works for small teams familiar with the content

• Full text search gets too many hits…• Solution: use metadata to improve the findability

of DITA content for reuse• We’d expect organizations with DITA or other

component reuse to be more mature in their adoption of metadata and taxonomy best practices.

• This isn’t exactly what we found…2


Join us for this webcast as we explore…

• Survey results revealing the current state of the practice in taxonomy and metadata for organizations that use XML

• State of current practices in tagging DITA content• Good, better, and best practices for tagging and

searching modular content• The value of taxonomy in improving metadata

governance and search

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IBM User Technologies

© 2009 IBM Corporation4

DITA taxonomy specialization

DITA 1.2 adds new capabilities for creating and managing metadata.

Create DITA maps to represent hierarchies of values.

Scalable approach to managing metadata

Create DITA topics for values.

04/08/2023

IBM User Technologies

© 2009 IBM Corporation5

IBM User Technologies adoption, experience and governance.

IBM User Technologies uses the DITA taxonomy specialization to create and manage metadata.

Faceted browse and search in the IBM Systems online documentation.

IBM User Technologies implementation notes and plans for governance.

04/08/2023


DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy

Taxonomy Community of Practice SeriesWednesday September 2nd, 1:00 PM ET

Paul Wlodarczyk

Director, Solutions Consulting, Earley & Associates

Erik Hennum

Information Model Architect, IBM

Robert Berry

Information Developer, IBM

Mike Harris

Information Architect, IBM

September 2 Taxonomy CoP: DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy

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