Taxonomy, metadata, and regulated industries in structured content

  • Workshop
  • Best Practices in Technical Documentation
  • 13. March
  • 09:00 - 10:30 AM (CET)
  • Meeting Room 5
  • finished
  •  Mark Pepper

    Mark Pepper

    • Paligo AB

Contents

A soda fountain machine is sold all over the world, with each region having its own labeling conventions. The user guide and other information pieces need to have the correct labels attached to them, but you don’t want to write unique pieces of content for each region, and you don’t want guides showing information not relevant to the user. How can you create a guide that shows only the relevant labels based on the user’s region?

A web site shows information aimed at users who have achieved different certification or security clearance levels. How can you ensure that users see information they are allowed to see without duplicating information?

An automated system assesses and reports on information based on its adherence to regulations. How can you create a system that can easily assess adherence?

Taxonomy and metadata are critical to all of these use cases. In this workshop we will learn how to create a taxonomy blueprint for all required labels and then use those labels to define metadata that can be applied to structured content like DocBook and DITA XML standards.

Takeaways

Participants will be able to

  • define a use case related to their regulated industry that can benefit from effective taxonomy and metadata management
  • design a taxonomy blueprint that meets the use case
  • map the taxonomy to metadata

Prior knowledge

The audience should have a fundamental understanding of structured content standards like DITA and DocBook. Experience with applying categories and labels is useful.

Speaker

 Mark Pepper

Mark Pepper

  • Paligo AB
Biography

Mark has been in the communications industry for over a quarter century. For the past 15 years, his focus has been on organizing content using tools such as taxonomies, metadata, and attributes found in structured content. He specializes in clear communications with a focus on helping people find, understand, and use information.

  • Paligo AB, Information Architect
  • Sun Life Financial, Senior Knowledge Consultant
  • Crimson Sage Softworks, Principal Consultant and Owner
  • Precision Content Authoring Solutions, Director of Professional Services and Senior Project Manager
  • BlackBerry, Information Architect
  • Deloitte, Technical Communications Consultant
  • Corporate Communications Interactive, Instructional Designer and Project Manager