Dita News & Articles

In the hysteria that often surrounds the management of unstructured data, sometimes you’d get the idea that structured content was all safely under wraps. Anyone working with content will know that this is not so. Hence, the release by SDL today of its Product Content Maturity Model with upgrades to SDL Trisoft and SDL LiveContent to support it.

For Microsoft Word users, publishing just got a little easier. Quark released Quark XML Author 4.0 for Microsoft Word, which allows users to more easily create structured XML content. It’s no secret that most content gets created in Word, so it’s only fitting that now you can intelligently create and publish with it, too.

UK-based SDL (news, site) announced the release of SDL LiveContent 2011, a multi-channel, context-aware product information platform that uses structured XML to produce different outputs on demand. That’s quite a mouthful. In simple terms, if your business is fast-moving, with frequent changes to product information and you’ve embraced consumerization by supporting multiple devices, SDL Live Content is something you should explore.

Vasont ST (news, site) launches this week with new mobile-focused features for the XML-based content management system.

 Choosing a standard for XML authoring is just one step on a long road to structured content management. Eventually you will need to create content based on said standard. This is where Codex Systems wants to help.

It’s been busy release-wise in the document management space with the recent upgrade to EMC’s Captiva, the addition of 3D imaging to JustSystems XMetaL authoring software, Colligo offering a private beta of its Office 365 integration, and two mobile apps from Quickoffice and enprovia that make mobile document management easier.

SDL (news, site) unleashes Trisoft for DITA 2011, packing in new features including support for DITA 1.2.

The upgrade from Contenta 4.0 to Contenta 4.1 has taken two years and sees the acquisition of its creator XyEnterprise by SDL. But v4.1 is out now and comes with new authoring features that enable users to insert and validate information references without leaving the authoring environment.

Welcome to the August installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

In what SDL (news, site) is describing as a “significant” deal, the information management vendor has bought Dutch XML editor developer Xopus in a deal that will initially cost €1.6 million (US$ 1.97 million), but could cost in the region of € 2 million (US$ 2.46 million) when it is finally closed.

SDL (news, site) continues to make headlines in the content management industry. First, there was the announcement of the results from the 2009 Automated Translation Survey. Next, there was the announcement of the new head of North American web content management.

Now the hot news is about the combination of two of SDL's flagship products. A combination that SDL executives believe will revolutionize the way technical documentation is delivered to end users.

From my ECM-er perspective, the reason the iPad is so important is because it marks the beginning of the end of the old generation of publishing, and the popularization of e-publishing.

 Vasont Systems’ (news, site) latest iteration of their content management system is up for grabs. Vasont 12.2 focuses on helping out the writer using Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and custom Document Type Definitions (DTDs).

As the 2009 conference season winds down, start booking those 2010 seats, starting with Intelligent Content 2010 which takes place at Palm Springs.

It must have been some party at JustSystems (news, site)  when they celebrated the tenth birthday of XMetaL because we haven’t really heard a lot from them, until now. They have just announced the launch of XMetaL Author Enterprise and Reviewer 6.0.

Anyone familiar with JustSystems’ XMetaL will be familiar with earlier versions of both products, which combined, give users collaborative XML authoring and powerful document reviewing tools.

However, they haven’t just upgraded the two products; they have also integrated them in a move that provides authors with the tools to inititate and manage reviews, as well as specialized editing commands that enable authors act as soon as problems are flagged.