Structured Microcontent Strategies for Optimizing DITA Delivery for Both Humans and Machine

  • Fachvortrag
  • Informationsmodellierung & Wissensstrukturen
  • 10. November
  • 02:00 PM (MEZ) - 02:45 PM (MEZ)
  • C6.2
  • Mr Rob Hanna

    Mr Rob Hanna

    • Precision Content

Inhalt

Over the past decade, our team has been modeling and developing writing practices for microcontent as a practical answer to problems many DITA teams now face: AI does not need more content—it needs better-shaped content. Microcontent is not simply smaller chunks of content. It is a purposeful unit of meaning, focused on one user intent, structured with using repeatable patterns, and enriched with the right context to be found, reused, assembled, and trusted. In this 40-minute session, we will show how DITA’s topic-based architecture already gives technical communicators a strong foundation for microcontent, and why the next step is learning to recognize the smaller blocks of knowledge inside topics. Attendees will learn how topics can remain the unit of authoring while microcontent becomes the unit of delivery for search, chatbots, AI assistants, support, and omnichannel content experiences.

Das lernen Sie

  • key properties of structured microcontent
  • information typing for user intent
  • writing practices for microcontent
  • delivery channels
  • microcontent and AI

Vorkenntnisse

Familiarity with structured authoring using DITA will be helpful but not required

Referent:in

Mr Rob Hanna

Mr Rob Hanna

  • Precision Content
Biografie

Rob Hanna has dedicated his professional life to improving outcomes for teams embarking on structured authoring projects. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with many large corporations on DITA and CCMS projects to bring their teams into structure and drive operational efficiencies. He has taught metadata and taxonomies at the University of Toronto and private courses on structured authoring, DITA, and information architecture. In 2013, Rob founded Precision Content in Toronto, Canada, to build a team of writers, developers, and IAs to continue his mission to raise the bar in Technical Communication.