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Information
Management News
Volume 6, Issue
6
June
2006
A monthly e-newsletter from The Center for
Information-Development Management (CIDM)
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD,
CIDM Director
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com
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News &
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;) Registration is
now open for the 2006 Best Practices conference to be held
September 18–20, 2006, in San Diego, California. More
information on the program will be coming soon!
Comtech
and Vasont Webinar
Join us for this free webinar hosted
by Vasont Systems. For more information and to register,
please visit the Vasont web site.
Comtech
Services Releases DITA User
Guide
We are accepting orders for
Introduction to DITA: A Basic
User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture. Order your copy today!
Host
a Workshop
Organizations that host a workshop in
the JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series receive four registrations
for the price of one. Find out how to become a host.
JoAnn
Hackos and Jen Linton to Speak at X-Pubs
2006
For information on these
presentations and discounts offered at X-Pubs 2006, read
the announcement.
LISA
Asia Forum
Read about JoAnn's presentation and
LISA's Asia Forum at www.lisa.org.
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Upcoming
Workshops |
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CIDM sponsors
the following
workshops:
Minimalism: Creating Manuals That People Can
Use
JoAnn Hackos, PhD,
July
11–12
King of Prussia,
PA
DITA: Getting Started
Jen
Linton,
July 25–26
San Diego,
CA
XML for Writers
Kylene
Bruski,
September
12–13
San Diego,
CA
For more information on these and
other workshops, visit the JoAnn Hackos Workshop Series web
site.
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Do We Really Need All
that Glue?
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
CIDM
Director
www.infomanagementcenter.com
The Technical Committee for the OASIS DITA
Standard has been having an interesting debate this month. The
debate concerns the need for "glue text" in technical manuals.
Glue text is defined as transitional information intended to
inform readers of what has come before or comes after a particular
procedure, description, or explanation. In topic-oriented
authoring, which forms the basis for the DITA Model, transitional
text has become problematic. If the goal is to write standalone
topics that may be used in more than one context, where does one
put the transitional text? Does transitional text belong in a
topic by itself? Should it be built into a task, concept, or
reference topic? Does transitional text belong in the map so that
it does not encumber the standalone
topics?
Read
the article
More
articles
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Estimating, Tracking, and Scheduling—Dawn
Stevens
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Advanced Process Mapping–Architectures and
Modularity—Vesa Purho
Estimating,
Tracking, and Scheduling
Dawn
Stevens, Jeppesen
I love numbers! They tell me so many
things, and I can use them to do so many things. For example,
numbers tell me when my project will be done and how much it will
cost. Numbers point out that I'm over budget but also help me
justify why. The manipulation of numbers can help me achieve
pretty much anything I need as I run my department. I might even
be able to convince some of you that 2+2 = 5 for large values of
2.
Read
the article
Advanced
Process Mapping–Architectures and
Modularity
Vesa Purho, Nokia
In my three previous articles, I went
through the basic concepts of swimlane process mapping. Now it is
time to introduce some advanced concepts. Just like information
and applications, processes can also have architectures which can
be modular.
Read
the article
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