Register: http://www.earley.com/webinars/dita Preview for the September Taxonomy Community of Practice webinar

1. DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy Taxonomy Community of Practice Series Wednesday 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

2. 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

3. 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 3

4. 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. 4 8/30/2009

5. 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. 5 8/30/2009

6. DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy Taxonomy Community of Practice Series Wednesday 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