Training

• Practical Introduction to DITA
• Introduction to OmniMark
• Advanced OmniMark Programming
• XML Best Practices
• Content Engineering Workshop
• XML Schema Modeling

Content Engineering Workshop

Delivering e-publishing solutions, developing content processing applications and implementing content management systems all require an integrated approach that draws upon different specialist skills and a variety of software tools.

As a key player in a team responsible for introducing better ways of managing, processing and leveraging content in your organization, you have a major stake in:

• Reducing project risks frequently seen in content management projects
• Adopting an agile process that will respond to the inevitable changes in business and technical requirements
• Leveraging existing techniques, best practices, specific software tool strengths, and application components
• Extending or improving the content management and publishing systems already in use within your organization
• Reducing the overall costs, and associated maintenance overheads, of technology investments through the maximization of efficient automation in content processes

Workshop Outline

This intensive two-day workshop is designed to introduce the principles of content engineering and position them within both business and technical contexts. In this workshop, a special emphasis is placed upon:

• The unique challenges associated with processing and managing content and delivering e-publishing solutions.
• The business benefits associated with adopting a systematic approach to dealing with those challenges
• The fundamentals underlying the discipline of content engineering
• Best practices for delivering e-publishing solutions and content processing applications.
• An approach to designing solutions that can adapt to evolving requirements and the inevitability of change

Course objectives

After the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify and classify the requirements for content management systems and e-publishing solutions
• Organize a project using a formal approach to designing, developing, deploying and delivering applications for managing and processing content
• Assess the applicability of different best practices, tools and development strategies
• Anticipate and avoid the common pitfalls and bottlenecks found in content processing applications
• Manage the lifecycle cost of investments in this area

Who should attend

• IT project managers
• IT managers
• Content managers
• CIOs, CKOs and CTOs
• Publications managers
• Web portal designers
• Information management consultants
• Enterprise architects
• Senior application developers

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