From Unstructured to Structured Content

Transforming Legacy Aircraft Documentation From PDFs to DITA XML

Webinar summary

On Wednesday April 5, Componize and Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) co-hosted a webinar demonstrating the benefits of moving to structured content titled: From Unstructured to Structured Content: Transforming Legacy Aircraft Documentation From PDFs to DITA XML

The aim, to demonstrate the advantages for manufacturer creating content using unstructured methods to create the technical and nontechnical documentation.

Some of the advantages of structured content authoring for manufacturers:

• Reuse ensures that content duplication is kept to a minimum and is properly managed when it cannot be avoided. This helps to maintain and update the documentation
• Consistency.
  Information architecture applied to the structured content helps authors and reader maintain a document plan that remains consistent across product documentation, but also cross-organization wherever the architecture is implemented
• Collaboration
  Components of the content managed in a single system leads to improved collaboration between writers, but also allows input from non-writers like Subject Matter Experts and other departments who might have a stake in the documentation, either as input givers or as output verifiers.
• Single-Source content => Multiformat output => Omnichannel delivery
  From a single type of document DITA XML, you have not just the possibility to publish content to multiple formats (PDF, HTML, EPUB), but also to deliver these formats in an intelligent manner to multiple platforms (websites, knowledge-bases, print, chatbots, AI training/generation). The possibilities are endless, given the flexibility of XML.

With the right partners, organizations can plan for and migrate their content from legacy document formats to XML, and start taking advantage of these benefits.

Webinar Co-Hosts

David Turner

Consultant – Publishing Automation, Digital Transformation, and Content Technologies
David Turner is an industry veteran in the areas around content management and content structure. He is particularly adept at demonstrating the business benefits of digital transformation and helping organizations identify ROI KPIs to gauge investments in systems, structure, and semantics. David is fluent across a number of industries and has helped scholarly publishers, global pharma organizations, and worldwide manufacturers recognize the value of content structure and semantic enrichment.

Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL)

DCL provides data and content transformation services and solutions. An expert in content conversion, but also in helping organizations improve the structure, consistency and reuse opportunities for their current content.

Using the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing, DCL helps businesses structure data and content for modern technologies and platforms.

With expertise across many industries, DCL uses advanced technology and US-based project management teams to solve complex conversion challenges and is a recognized leader in XML, DITA, SPL, and S1000D conversions

Componize

Helping to streamline the creation, management and maintenance of you business content.

Componize is a DITA CCMS that optimizes the authoring, management, translation and publishing of business documents at the enterprise scale, and for any level of expertise. Based on an open-source CMS, Componize also helps maintain non-structured content including digital assets, Word and PDF documents and much more.

Watch the webinar and contact us for a short conversation on how DCL and Componize can help your organization make more of your content.