Life in the Fast Lane

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Life in the Fast Lane

• Avoiding the Potholes Along the Way

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The Autobahn

• Information creation
• Information management
• Information delivery
• Personalization
• Globalization
• Localization

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The Southeast Expressway

• Incompatible software
• Floppy disks and desk drawers
• Inability to achieve consistent output
• Difficulty navigating information base
• Retrieval
• Terminology
• Language

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The Map

• Where are you now?
• Where do you want to be?
• How will you get there?
• Needs Analysis
• Requirements Development

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The Road Bed

• Structured Markup
• Data analysis
• DTD / Schema development
• Metadata
• Cross-functional teams

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Macadam

• Structured Markup Authoring
• Templates
• Forms
• Help
• Or not?
• Templates
• Add-ons
• Other formats

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Lanes and Lines

• XML
• Other data formats
• Links
• Versions
• Workflow states
• Searching/Retrieval
• Accessibility

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The Driving Experience

• Web
• Server-side XML
• Client-side XML
• HTML
• Storage
• CD-ROM
• Paper

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Roadway Maintenance

• Structured Markup Editing
• Or not?
• Transformations

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Vehicle Maintenance

• Updates
• Annotations

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Hyundai or Hummer?

• What?
• Customer / prospect
• Product type
• Management / technical
• Skill level

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Driver or Passenger?

• How?
• Profiling via attributes
• Metadata
• Taxonomies

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Right Side or Left?

• Controlled vocabulary
• Consistent terminology

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Left Side or Right?

• Prioritize
• Modularize

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Tips

• Define a plan
• Get people involved
• Provide training at all levels
• Remember your objectives
• Keep people informed
• Small successes rather than large failures

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Element K

• From start to finish in 5 months
• Needs assessment
• Data architecture development
• Product selection
• Installation
• Configuration
• Customization
• Paper and Electronic Deliverables
• Custom Publishing

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Who are they?

• Training developers
• In-house
• Third-party development
• Corporate customers

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What kind of training?

• Instructor-led
• On-line
• Business applications
• Programming
• System Administration

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Tools

• Arbortext Epic
• Custom-developed XML DTD
• Chrystal Astoria
• XyEnterprise XPP
• Custom-developed web interface

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Thank You!

• Mary P McRae
• Director, XML Solutions
• mary.mcrae_at_dmsi-world.com

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