GALA Webinar: Structured content in DITA/XML: Challenge or opportunity for the localization/translation community?

09 September 2010 11:00 EDT

Anna van Raaphorst and Dick Johnson, DITA consultant from VR Communications, Inc., will present a webinar on Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) on Thursday, 09 September.  DITA is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering information. 

Anna and Dick represent an independent, vendor-neutral view of the content production industry and DITA and are producers of free resources for the DITA community.  They are currently working on information/models about localization/translation for content producers and are interested in fostering more collaboration between content producers and content localizers/translators.

• Key DITA concepts, processes, and tools
• An overview of DITA's key benefits for content producers with a focus on localization benefits
• Trends in the content production industry with an emphasis on parallel trends in the localization/translation industry
• Current activities to expand DITA information/models for content producers with localization/translation information and models
• How localization/translation information and models could be improved
• Ideas for additional collaborative efforts 

GALA webinars are free for GALA members and their clients. The cost for non members is US$129 per session. ALC members pay $25. (This fee will be waived and applied toward GALA membership if your company is eligible for membership and joins within one month of the webinar.) Non members may submit a credit card payment online or request an invoice.

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