Archive for October 16th, 2006

Part 1: DITA & Translation
Tues, October 24, 2006
10am PST | 1pm EST | 6pm GMT

Presenters: Dr. Joanne Hackos and Jennifer Linton, Comtech Services

The first in a series of free educational Webinars, “DITA and Translation” will focus on how to best implement DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) in your information development and management process.

As organizations build a business case for moving their content to DITA and implementing a content management system, reduced translation and localization costs are usually significant parts of the promised ROI. Translation costs are reduced through the virtual elimination of desktop-publishing tasks for multiple languages, as well as the limitation of new and changed topics vis-à-vis a comprehensive multi-language management system.

In this, the first webinar of the series, Dr. JoAnn Hackos, president of Comtech Services, director of the CIDM, and chair of the DITA Technical Subcommittee on Translation, will outline how to best implement DITA to reduce translation costs and speed time to market of global content.

Takeaways from the “DITA and Translation” Webinar:

• How to use DITA metadata to specify languages, bi-directionality and translation.
• How to prepare indexes in DITA that do not complicate translation activities.
• How to prepare your legacy translation memory so that you maintain its value as a business asset as you transform content to the DITA model.
• How to write with translation in mind.

And more!

The rest of the series:

• Part 2: Conditional Publishing
  Mon, November 20, 2006
  10am PST | 1pm EST | 6pm GMT
• Part 3: Specialization
  Thurs, January 18, 2007
  10am PST | 1pm EST | 6pm GMT

Register for this webinar or for the entire series.