Content Convergence & Integration 2008
Session: Bring Documents to Life: Transform How Information is Shared, Consumed and Utilized with Dynamic Documents
Description
Today, key documents to business operations, such as policies, procedures, and technical manuals, are published as static documents and are just a snapshot in time. By pulling together technologies such as XML-based authoring and publishing tools and connecting to live data, documents can become dynamic and interactive — alive in a sense. Rather than creating and then updating the same document with different versions, a document can really begin to work for you by incorporating real-time (live) data so that it’s tailored to the end-user and automatically contains the most up-to-date information.
Session Details
| Speakers: |
Amber Swope
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:00 PM - 3:55 PM |
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| Track: | XML publishing |
| Location: | Pavilion Ballroom D |
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By: Claudia Wunder
on Mar 17 2008 at 01:46 AM EDT
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Bridging Worlds Divided
Amber Swope compared the pros and cons of documents and applications. Documents are persistent, portable, contextual, and ad hoc. But they are also static and disconnected. Applications are dynamic, interactive, and authoritative. But they have little context or persistence, are not portable, and are monolithic. Amber used a mortgage document as an example of a dynamic document. It begins as a document, turns into a transation as data is added in (names, mortgage amount, payment terms, etc), and then becomes a document again--one that must persist. There is a need to bridge the divided worlds of documents and applications and vendors are moving in this direction with products that deliver dynamic content. Amber presented a DITA Maturity Model. To get to the dynamic document level requires collaboration with IT. This very good presentation was marred only by vendor-specific terminology on the slides. |
