Counting Dragons: Quantifying Obstacles to Content Reuse
Presentation Abstract
This presentation and demo address the following:
1. What are the top obstacles to content reuse?
2. How many of those obstacles can be quantified in existing content BEFORE a team attempts to refactor that content for reuse?
3. What (free) tools are available to interrogate XML DITA and Markdown source topics?
4. How can output from these analytic tools be modeled in a spreadsheet so teams get a clear picture of the relative costs of refactoring one domain of content versus another?
Meet the Presenter
Stan Doherty lives in the the Boston area and works as a manager and information architect at Oracle Corporation.
He serves as a founding member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, secretary for the OASIS DITA Adoption Technical Committee, and co-administrator for the Boston DITA Users Group (BostonDITA.org). Feel free to contact Stan if you are considering DITA, DITA tools, and DITA-Markdown interoperability.
Contact: [email protected]