CMS/DITA Europe 2018 | November 5-6, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Stilo is pleased to once again be one of the sponsors of the 2018 Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe conference being held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from November 5-6, 2018.
Join colleagues from around the world for two days of career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical solutions. With insights from over 30 speakers, 13 Sessions in the Technology Test Kitchen, an exhibit hall packed with the best content management solutions, and the very best in industry networking, CMS/DITA Europe is designed with your specific needs in mind—providing strategies you can use immediately as you create and manage technical content, and expanding your professional network with information development experts from around the world.
Whether you’re a Novice or a Master, you’ll find sessions that provide inspiration and practical skills, covering topics such as:
- Implementing a component Content Management System
- Adopting DITA, Markdown, or other XML structures
- Effectively reusing content
- Creating corporate taxonomies
- Incorporating social media strategies
- Managing teams
- Collaborating across the enterprise
Find out more about Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe 2018 and register.
STC Summit 2018 | May 20-23, Orlando, FL
Stilo is pleased to once again be one of the merit sponsors of this year's Society for Technical Communication Summit - you will find us in the Expo Hall on booth # 304.
STC’s Technical Communication Summit is the premier conference for technical communication education and networking. The conference attracts over 600 attendees and 40 exhibitors during a 3 day period and brings together like minded individuals to grow in their knowledge of the technical communication field.
The 2018 Summit takes place 20-23 May at the Hyatt Regency Orlando in Orlando, FL. The Summit kicks off Sunday evening with the Welcome Reception in the Expo Hall. The 2018 theme is ‘Communicate the Future’, which will be reflected in the overall program of events as well as individual education sessions.
The Summit is made up of two major parts:
The Education. Organized in tracks, these sessions begin Monday morning and continue through Wednesday morning. Sessions are offered in a variety of formats and tracks.
The Expo Hall. This opens on Sunday evening and features numerous companies, all prepared to unveil and demonstrate new and exciting products, services, and technology to the world of technical communication.
Find out more about the STC 2018 Technical Communication Summit.
Stilo's Conversion Services Manager, Helen St. Denis, will be making a technical presentation at the STC Summit 2018:
Monday 21 May 2018 | 10.30 - 11.20am
Society for Scholarly Publishing 2018 | May 30-June 1, Chicago, IL
Stilo will be exhibiting at this year's Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) annual conference. You will find us in the exhibit hall (booth number 418B).
The theme for this year's conference is:
Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here?
As the Society for Scholarly Publishing celebrates its 40th anniversary, the theme for the conference highlights the many crossroads within scholarly publishing, including past and future practices, changing revenue models, funding challenges, regulation changes, technological innovations, and reaching new markets while maintaining established ones. These crossroads introduce new challenges as well as new opportunities for scholarly publishing and for the communities it serves and push us to keep up with the changing needs of researchers and academics who both generate and use the content. As we look back, could we have predicted forty years ago where scholarly publishing would be today? How can we anticipate the needs for the future? What questions do we need to be asking—and answering—to move forward?
Tracks:
- Fueling Scholarship
- Reimaging Research
- Tools and Technology
- Industry Crossroads
- Marketing/Sales/Strategy
- Practical Skills
- New Challenges/New Innovations
Find out more and register for the conference
Stilo will be making a presentation as part of the Sponsored Sessions track:
Wednesday, May 30 | 12.30pm - 1.15pm
A New Approach to XML JATS/STS Content Conversion & Editing using Web-based Tools
XML-based workflows are becoming increasingly well-established. Moving to an XML-based publishing environment can save time and money and make new publishing paradigms possible. In this session, we introduce you to two new web-based tools for publishers looking to target the NISO XML JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) and STS (Standards Tag Set) specifications:
Migrate - a cloud service that automates the conversion of content, including MS Word and HTML, to XML JATS & STS
Speaker: Patrick Baker, Stilo International
As VP of Development and Professional Services, Patrick heads up all new product development at Stilo and is actively engaged in the successful deployment of content processing solutions for publishing clients. Major ongoing product development efforts include OmniMark, the leading high-performance content processing platform and Migrate, the world's first cloud XML content conversion service. Patrick has been associated with best practices for complex content processing for over a decade, and has successfully delivered custom solutions on behalf of organizations in the automotive, airline, defence and commercial publishing sectors. With a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from McGill University, Patrick leads an expert team of highly talented content processing specialists. Twitter Handle: @StiloInt
LavaCon 2018 | October 21-24, New Orleans, LA
Stilo is pleased to once again be one of the sponsors of the annual LavaCon content strategy conference being held in New Orleans, Louisiana from October 21-24, 2018. You will find us on booth # 21 in the Grand Ballroom, where lunch is being served and close by to the coffee station!
LavaCon started in Hawaii (hence the name) to give content strategists, documentation managers, and senior content professionals an opportunity to get away from the office and tend to their professional development. The conference mission is:
- To help content developers embrace rapidly changing technology and customer demographics
- To connect organizations experiencing content challenges with the consulting, translation, and tool vendors who can help
- To create a community where content professionals can collaborate and advance the field as a whole
This year’s theme is Creating Content Experience Ecosystems. Visit the conference website for further information and to register.
Stilo's Conversion Services Manager, Helen St. Denis will be making the following presentation at LavaCon 2018:
‘Tis an Unweeded Garden that Grows to Seed—Cultivating a Weed-Free Content Ecosystem
Wednesday, October 24 - 11.30-12.30
In this session, Stilo’s Conversion Services Manager, Helen St. Denis, will show how organizations can get rid of 'unwanted specimens and deadwood', identify opportunities for reuse—create once, publish everywhere—and put in place strategies for maintaining your content assets so as not to get overgrown again.
Helen will cover:
- Weeding (Content audit)
- Preparing to transplant the good stuff (Pre-conversion preparation)
- Selecting the correct location (Identifying topic type)
- Pruning (Ensuring content matches the content model)
- Looking after your new garden (Post-conversion)
- Thinning (Content deduplication and reuse)
Read the full session description
CMS/DITA North America 2018 | April 23-25, Denver, CO
Stilo is pleased to once again be one of the sponsors of the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference. Now in its twentieth year, the 2018 conference is being held in Denver, Colorado from April 23-25, 2018.
The Content Management Strategies/DITA conference offers many unique networking opportunities. Meet publications professionals who have implemented content management strategies and the OASIS DITA standard in their organizations. Hear from key tool developers who are actively supporting the standards-based community.
You should attend if:
- You’re considering investing in a component-based Content Management System and want to meet others who have done so
- You’re interested in enhancing your users’ experience
- You’re interested in learning about the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it can improve your content
- You’re thinking about implementing the OASIS DITA standard for structured content in your organization
- You want to hear tips and tricks from others who are engaged in the DITA community worldwide
- You would like to see how your peers are using taxonomies to improve their processes
- You would like to learn how to successfully navigate an Agile environment
- You would like to learn how to successfully navigate through your recent Merge/Acquisition
- You are interested in learning about emerging technologies
Find out more about Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2018 and register.
We will also be making the following presentation - so be sure to add it to you schedule:
Wednesday, April 25 | 9.40 - 10.20am
DITA: Start small, grow big, using open source tools
Patrick Baker, VP Development & Professional Services
Abstract: You’re considering using DITA and would like to try it out without incurring significant upfront costs, but also keeping your options open longer-term. Where do you start? How will you approach the challenges of content creation, content management, and publishing your content?
There are in fact plenty of options. The good news is that XML and DITA are open standards. This has led to a healthy ecosystem with quality commercial and inter-operable open source tools, that do away with vendor lock-in and keep operating costs down.
We will discuss the three challenges, show an example of how end-to-end solutions can be built based upon Git and other open source tools. In fact, the result may be better than you’d expect.
tekom Fair 2017 | October 24-26, Stuttgart, Germany
While not exhibiting, Stilo will be attending the tekom Fair 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany on Tuesday, October 25 and Wednesday, October 26. If you would like to arrange to meet with one our representatives, drop us an email.
Learn more about Stilo’s Migrate – a cloud service that automates the conversion of content including MS Word & HTML to DITA, JATS & other XML formats.
The tekom fair – together with the tekom annual conference and the tcworld conference, held simultaneously in English – is the world's largest event for technical communication. The fair takes its visitors to its venue, the ICS (International Congress Center Stuttgart) – Messe Stuttgart. Find out more and register here.
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 | October 11-15, Germany
Come and meet Stilo at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, you will find us in Hall 4.2 - as part of the Professional & Scientific Information Hot Spot, on booth N92.
Learn more about Stilo's Migrate - a cloud service that automates the conversion of content including MS Word & HTML to JATS, DITA & other XML formats.
The Frankfurter Buchmesse is the most important international trade fair for content, the center of the international media world and a major cultural event. Nowhere else in the world does the publishing and media industry show itself from a more diverse, innovative and international side than during these five days in October.
Find out more and book your fair ticket.
Bookmark our presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair:
A new approach to XML JATS content conversion & editing using web-based tools
Presented by Les Burnham, CEO | Stilo International
Thursday, October 12, 3.30pm
XML-based workflows are becoming increasingly well-established. Moving to an XML-based publishing environment can save time and money and make new publishing paradigms possible.
In this session, we will introduce you to two new web-based tools for STM publishers looking to target the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) XML specification:
- Migrate – a cloud service that automates the conversion of content, including MS Word & HTML to JATS, DITA & other XML format
Discover how Stilo can help you significantly reduce your ongoing conversion costs and associated production times.
Balisage 2017 Symposium | July 31, 2017, Rockville MD
Up-translation and up-transformation: tasks, challenges, and solutions
a Balisage pre-conference symposium
Stilo's Conversion Services Manager, Helen St. Denis will be providing a demo of the Migrate cloud XML content conversion service and available to answer any questions attendees may have on content conversion. Visit the symposium website for more information on this and Balisage 2017.
About the symposium
Document users sometimes find that the formats of the documents available are not rich enough to support their intended uses. Conversion of content and/or increasing the specificity of markup is an important task in many different content and information workflows. Markup transformations can involve high-level structuring, detailed component structuring, and/or enhancing information by inserting or matching or linking to external vocabularies or data. Enhancing markup presents numerous challenges including lack of structure of the inputs or inconsistency of input data down to the level of spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary. Sources for up-translation may be XML, word processing documents, or just plain text.
The range of approaches to up-transformation is as varied as the specifics of the input and required outputs. Solutions may combine automated processing with human review or could be 100% software implementations. Transformations can require maintenance and evolution as content practices and standards evolve over time.
The presentations in this pre-conference symposium will include goals, challenges, solutions, and workflows for transformation and significant XML enhancement, including approaches, tools, and techniques. Topics include content types such as LaTeX, MS Word XML, RTF, HTML, TEI, DITA, JATS, BITS and workflows for existing content and new content. HTML as a robust intermediate format will be a major topic. The symposium will also include a session of demos of conversion tools.
SDL Connect 2017 | October 25-26, San Jose, CA
Stilo is pleased to be one of the bronze sponsors at SDL Connect 2017, being held October 25-26 in San Jose, California - SDL's annual flagship event that offers attendees two packed days of learning, networking and connecting!
Prepare for the future of digital globalization at SDL Connect!
Join us for two packed days at SDL Connect, our annual flagship event, to discuss globalization, localization, AI, web and technical content management, and much more. We’ll also be commemorating how, for the past 25 years, SDL has been helping companies change the way they communicate with customers, and we’ll share our vision for the next 25.
Find out more about SDL Connect and register to attend.
Migrate Live Demo | July 12, 2017, 9am PDT
Join Stilo’s Conversion Services Manager, Helen St. Denis, for a live 30-minute demonstration of the Migrate XML cloud content conversion service. Migrate is a unique cloud service that enables technical authoring teams to automate the conversion of their content from various source formats including XML/SGML/HTML, FrameMaker, Word, Author-it, InDesign, RoboHelp and DocBook to DITA and custom XML. It provides greater control over conversion quality, immediate turnaround times and operates on a low-cost, pay-as-you-use basis.
See why Migrate is the conversion service of choice for organizations including Altera, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Extreme Networks, IBM, Qualcomm, Teradata, Varian Medical Systems, Webtrends and many more.
Find out more about the Migrate XML cloud content conversion service
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