A new XML-based content management system that is not based on DITA. Bet you didn’t see that coming. But I think it tells us something interesting about the two sides of structured writing. Tom Johnson’s recent sponsored post explains the origins of Paligo, a relatively new CCMS out of Sweden. Paligo was developed by a company… Read More »
It is easy to think of metadata as a few information fields that you tack onto an article when you submit it to a CMS. In this vision, metadata is something fairly small, a triviality in comparison to the content itself. The reality is just the opposite; for any piece of content or data, the… Read More »
The “what” in “what you see is what you get” is not always “formatting”. Authors need WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) displays to work effectively. This is basic ergonomics. If you can’t see the thing you are supposed to be creating, you will have a hard time creating it well. But while authors… Read More »
The key to survive being edited is not to look at the edits. There is a lot of advice available on how to edit other people’s work, and how to edit your own, but not much on how to be edited by someone else. Here’s some thoughts on how to make it a relatively less… Read More »