Date: 16 September 2011, 10-10:30 AM Pacific/US Title: Improving Your Search Results in Online Content Presenter: Clay Helberg, TerraXML Level: Advanced Description: Small tweaks can dramatically improve search results for your users. See how easy it is to change the way search results appear in the out-of-the box online help produced by Arbortext Publishing Engine.

See how easy it is to change the way search results appear in the out-of-the box online help produced by Arbortext Publishing Engine

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Date: 29 July 2011, 10-10:30 AM Pacific/US Title: Those Devious Authors – Simplifying the Authoring Process for New Users Presenter: Paul Nagai, Shop Coach Level: Advanced Description: Arbortext provides tools developers, IT staff, and support personnel a lot of resources to simplify the Authoring interface for users. Want to turn off the ability to tweak page-breaks so you don’t need to spend hours debugging a stylesheet error that doesn’t exist? Our shop coaches give their best hints on how to remove the ‘troublesome’ features in Arbortext Editor to simplify your job and your author’s job as well! In this 30 minute, recorded web session, Paul Nagai shows how you can: Create XUI dialogs to allow editing metadata stored as attributes/elements. Take advantage of “calculated attribute values” to aggregate metadata putting complex “calculations” into ACL and simplifying the stylesheet. Combine these two techniques to produce multiple Tables of Contents or, more accurately, “Lists of Impact.”

Hints on how to remove the 'troublesome' features in Arbortext Editor to simplify your job and your author's job as well!

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Anyone who’s been in the SGML/XML industry for any length of time knows Barry Shaeffer. Barry is a frequent speaker and contributor on subjects related to information and content management. His work with structured information began in 1979 with SGML, and with XML at its initial publication as a standard in 1996.

He was Founder and President of X.Systems.Inc., a system development and consulting firm specializing in the conception and design of text-based information systems, with industrial, legal/judicial and publishing clients among the Fortune 500, non-profit organizations and government agencies, until it’s acquisition by XyEnterprise in 2008. X.Systems was the first Arbortext partner company.

Today, Barry is a Senior Analyst with the Gilbane Group and a Principal consultant with Content Life-cycle Consulting, Inc.

Over the course of his career, Barry has held management and technical positions with The Bell System, Xerox, Planning Research Corporation, U. S. News and World Report, Grumman Data Systems and XyEnterprise. As an experienced consultant and systems architect, he has supported a client list that includes major industrial organizations, Federal civilian and defense agencies and state governments.  He was even the new media columnist at Newspapers and Technology magazine for a couple of years.

And we are beyond delighted that he could join us on the PubWright Podcast.

The advice he gives is invaluable when it comes to thinking about how to roll out XML publishing systems, how to think about organizational content strategy, and full of lessons learned about both. In fact, there’s a bit of important history here: Barry was there at BNA when IBM was learning the lessons that lead IBM to invent DITA. Interesting stuff!

Head on over to the podcast–available on our podcast feed and on iTunes iTunes–and hear from a long time part of the the XML/technical publications family.

References

During our conversation, Barry talks about a seminal XML implementation at BNA. The articles he mentioned are listed below:

• “BNA’s Experience Holds Lessons for On-line Newspapers“, Newspapers and Technology magazine article by Barry Schaeffer
• “The Technology and Culture of Web 2.0” by Barry Schaeffer & Bruce Nevin
• “Content Management: A Survival Guide“, CIO Magazine article by Barry Schaeffer