Managing Implementation of structured authoring

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Abstract

Implications of structure

Costs

Implementation effort

Summary

Managing implementation of structured authoring

Moving a desktop publishing–based workgroup into structured authoring requires authors to master new concepts, such as hierarchical content organization, information chunking with elements, and metadata labeling with attributes. In addition to these technical challenges, the implementation itself presents significant difficulties. This paper describes Scriptorium Publishing’s methodology for implementing structured authoring environments. This document is intended primarily as a roadmap for our clients, but it could be used as a starting point for any implementation.

This white paper assumes basic familiarity with XML and structured authoring. For more information about these concepts, refer to our Structured authoring and XML white paper.

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