WEBINAR | Recognizing Potential Reuse in Your Content Before Conversion
December 1st, 2022 @ 12:00pm ET
Our Presenter:
Jacob Brennan | Technical Sales Product Specialist
One of the main benefits of using a structured format such as DITA is the ability to reuse content, but realizing where reuse is beneficial and estimating the probable savings can be a tedious and time-consuming task. In this webinar, we demonstrate how you can identify reusable or redundant content in your own documentation and pinpoint potential cost savings using detailed graphical reports with Stilo’s Analyzer.
Jacob Brennan is a Technical Sales Product Specialist at Stilo. He works with Stilo Migrate customers and aids in converting their legacy content to DITA. Jacob is a recent graduate from the University of Ottawa holding a BASc. in Mechanical Engineering and a BSc. in Computing Technology.
WEBINAR | Semantic markup. Why do I need it, and how do I do it?
October 11th, 2022 @ 12:00pm ET
Our Presenter:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager
In the past, we have produced documents with a focus on how they look when published. Page layout, font face, font size, bolding and italics have been useful not just to make the documents attractive, but more importantly, to make them easier to read and understand. Nowadays we are told that semantic markup is preferable. Why is that, and how do we add it to our docs?
WEBINAR | How An Automated DITA Conversion Can Help Your Authoring Team
September 14th, 2022 @ 10:00am ET
Our Presenter:
Jacob Brennan | Technical Sales Product Specialist
In this webinar we discuss several key advantages to using an automated DITA conversion tool, such as Stilo’s Migrate. We demonstrate how automated tools make converting content easier, faster, and more convenient, resulting in considerable time and money savings.
WEBINAR | What an automated DITA conversion can do for you (and what it can’t)
May 25th, 2022 @ 12:00pm ET
Our Presenter:
Helen St. Denis | Conversion Services Manager
Pretty easily, we can get a basic DITA structure from headings, tables and lists in the legacy content. As well, though, for each different source format there are a number of ways to extract information that can be used to refine the DITA output. Likewise, there are ways to enrich the content automatically.
There are, however, some things it can’t do …yet.
As more and more types of content are being moved to DITA, a greater variety of legacy formats need to be converted. We’ll look at some of them to see what can be gleaned from each, beyond the basic structure, and some of the challenges that remain.
WEBINAR | How much redundant content do I really have? Actualizing the reuse in our documentation.
April 6th, 2022 @ 12:00pm ET
Our Presenter:
TJ Dhaliwal | Technical Sales Product Specialist
Content reuse is one of the many advantages of moving to DITA and a structured standard. It helps us reduce the amount of overall content we have, improve consistency, and decrease redundancy. However, it is difficult to visualize this value before the conversion takes place. Estimates can be off, and it is hardly ever clear how much content we can actually reuse from our documentation. Typos and partial matches only complicate our futile estimates. Narrowing the scope of this approximation by investigating similar matches in our source content before conversion can provide valuable insight to the potential benefits of moving to a structured standard.
Join TJ Dhaliwal in this session as he uses Stilo’s Analyzer and Migrate to investigate source content for similar and exact matches. Then, further use that information to plan for conrefs, keyrefs, and topicrefs before any transformation takes place. Conclude by deduplicating exact topic matches and realizing some of the potential that was uncovered in the beginning.
Press Release - Release of Analyzer 1.0: Free Content Reuse Analysis Tool
Stilo International Announces Analyzer 1.0: Free Content Reuse Analysis Tool
OTTAWA, Ontario, November 1, 2021 – Stilo (https://www.stilo.com) is excited to announce a free content reuse analysis tool, Analyzer 1.0, that enables users to pinpoint cost savings for implementing a reuse strategy across an entire document corpus. Analyzer allows users to identify content reuse across multiple source formats (e.g. MS Word, FrameMaker, and HTML) by providing an interactive GUI and detailed graphical reports.
To begin, content is uploaded to the portal and immediately analyzed. The analysis looks for both exact and near matches, and will report separate results for paragraphs, tables, images, and spans. Upon completion, users will be provided with their very own custom portal in which they can analyze results, investigate opportunities, tailor cost figures, and export detailed reports.
“Reuse analysis is a critical step for many organizations investigating the move to structured content, and in particular, structured XML”, says Bryan Tipper, CEO of Stilo. “With Analyzer, users now have access to a free tool that can report statistics such as exact matches, near matches, and most importantly, potential content reuse. In addition, an interactive sequence browser within Analyzer provides clarity on the number of content reuse opportunities and where those opportunities can be found”.
To get started with a free content reuse analysis, users should visit: https://www.stilo.com/analyzer/.
About Stilo International
Stilo develops tools to help organizations automate the conversion of content to XML and build XML content processing components integral to enterprise-level publishing solutions. Operating from offices in the UK and Canada, Stilo supports commercial publishers, technology companies and government agencies around the world in their pursuit of structured content. For more information, visit https://www.stilo.com/about.
Media Contact
Bryan Tipper
+1 (613) 745 4242
[email protected]
Related Links
https://www.stilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Analyzer-1.0-Content-Reuse-Analysis-Summary-Concise.jpg
https://cdn.stilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Analyzer-1.0-Content-Reuse-Analysis-Report-Concise.jpg
https://cdn.stilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Analyzer-1.0-Content-Reuse-Analysis-Sequence-Browser-Concise.jpg
SOURCE: Stilo International
Free Conversion Offer
Upload your sample document (20-30 pages) and we will convert it to DITA free of charge!
We review the conversion results with you, and let you retain the output for your own testing purposes.
WEBINAR | Analyzer 1.0 - Identifying Content Reuse
November 16, 2021 @ 11:00am EDT
Our Presenter:
TJ Dhaliwal | Technical Sales Product Specialist
Analyzer is an interactive platform that enables users to identify content reuse across multiple source formats, pinpoint potential cost savings, and generate compelling & detailed graphical reports.
In this webinar we will demonstrate how to analyze Word content, calculate & navigate reuse potential, and generate beautiful reports estimating cost savings.
Press Release - Migrate 4.0 Introduces Exact-Match DITA Deduplication
Stilo International Announces Official Release of Migrate 4.0 and Introduces Exact-Match DITA Deduplication
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 8, 2021 – In an effort to maximize DITA reuse potential, Stilo (https://www.stilo.com) adds exact-match deduplication to the latest release of its well-established cloud service.
Migrating documentation to DITA has many benefits, chief among them being the opportunity to reduce cost and improve quality by reusing content. A documentation set might have reuse potential as high as 50%, however, finding good reuse candidates may prove to be difficult, especially when dealing with thousands of topics. Hence the need for automation.
The first step in the deduplication process is for the user to take the newly created DITA files and put them into a collection. At this point, the automated system compares each topic against the others in that collection. Once redundancies are identified, the system selects the canonical version, automatically eliminates redundant copies, and then updates topics and associated maps.
“Up until today, our Migrate conversion platform has focused on converting legacy content, such as HTML, Word, and FrameMaker, to DITA XML” says Bryan Tipper, CEO of Stilo. “With this new deduplication functionality, Migrate can now identify and eliminate redundant topics as part of that conversion process, and utilize the reuse mechanisms that were intended by the DITA architecture.”
About Stilo International
Stilo develops tools to help organizations automate the conversion of content to XML and build XML content processing components integral to enterprise-level publishing solutions. Operating from offices in the UK and Canada, Stilo supports commercial publishers, technology companies and government agencies around the world in their pursuit of structured content. For more information, visit https://www.stilo.com/about.
Media Contact
Bryan Tipper
+1 (613) 745 4242
[email protected]
Related Links
https://www.stilo.com/2020/09/29/automatic-exact-topic-deduplication/
https://www.stilo.com/migrate-dita/
https://cdn.stilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Migrate-4-Exact-Match-Deduplication.jpg
SOURCE: Stilo International
Free Conversion Offer
Upload your sample document (20-30 pages) and we will convert it to DITA free of charge!
We review the conversion results with you, and let you retain the output for your own testing purposes.
Stilo Management Changes and Covid-19 Update
We are pleased to announce that Bryan Tipper, formerly VP Sales & Marketing, based in our Ottawa office, has been appointed CEO and a Director of Stilo International as from April 1st. At the same time, Les Burnham, formerly CEO, has been appointed Chairman and Non-Executive Director. David Ashman continues to serve on the Board as a Non-Executive director.
All of our day to day operations are now based in Ottawa, and in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, our staff have been working from home since the beginning of last week, without any significant disruption to our business operations.
The publishing of our 2019 results has been delayed, as the FCA has put a temporary block on announcements because of Covid-19 and its potential impact. We are told by our auditors that there might be a further 5-10 day delay in announcing our results, but we don’t know for sure. We will let you know as soon as they become available.
ENQUIRIES
Stilo International Limited
Les Burnham, Chairman and Non-Executive Director
T +44 1793 441 444
Liam O’Donoghue, Company Secretary
T +44 20 7583 8304
Note: If you are an existing shareholder, and would like to receive a copy of the results when they become available, along with any significant news updates, can you please register on the Investor News page of our website.
Stilo Announces OmniMark v11
Stilo has recently announced the latest release of OmniMark v11 - the ultimate platform for high-performance content processing.
As Stilo strengthens its position as a leading developer of software tools and cloud services that help organizations create and process structured content in XML format, we are pleased to announce the release of OmniMark version 11. This latest release provides support for additional new platforms, as well as improvements to the language, libraries and beta-libraries. See below for the highlights.
New Platforms (Including 64-bit Support)
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2016 and 2019 (64-bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8 (64-bit)
64 Bit Support
- Available on Windows (NEW)
- Available on Linux
Platforms
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2016 and 2019
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and 8
New in the Language
- Abstract record types can now be declared
- New syntax for accessing entity properties from outside external-data-entity or external-text-entity rules
- Declarations can now be applied to an external text entity reference events
- A new document-type-declaration rule for working with DTD regions events
New in the Libraries
- OMOASISCATALOGS has improved resolution of included catalogs
- OMXMLWRITE can now encode external text entity references, and provides options to emit empty XML tags or not, and to encode character references as UTF-8 or as numeric character references
- OMMARKUPUTILITIES allows the | operator to be used to join multiple entity-resolver instances, each behaving as a fallback for the preceding
- OMUNICODE provides information of Unicode block boundaries
Beta Libraries
- W3C XML Schema
- Regular expressions
- Serialize to SGML
Try OmniMark for free. Request a free 60-day* evaluation copy of OmniMark.
*strictly non-production use
