The new tekom blog is all about intelligent information. The blog brings together experts from related fields to explore the various aspects of the design and development of intelligent technologies.
Ulrike Parson has written an article on The Core of Intelligent Information - MetadataMetadata. What it is about:
Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) have changed technical documentation. Users now read small chunks of information that match their context, task, or role. Instead of classical documentation, we now need information that is modular, neutral with respect to format, and accessible via metadata and full-text search.
The world of technical writing loves XML. Its document type definitions are the foundation of structured authoring. XML and the underlying schemas structure the content of our information products. The benefits are twofold. Content is consistently structured and easy to read. Authors have an easier time writing the content. The structure provides guidelines for authoring. Read more
In this article, Martin Kreutzer and Ulrike Parson describe how you fill content delivery portals with smart content so that users quickly get the right answers to their questions. Read more
At this year’s tcworld conference in October, the working group "Information 4.0" presented version 0.9 of iiRDS (intelligent information Request and Delivery Standard), the content delivery standard for technical documentation for industry 4.0. Read more
Search engine optimization is a broad field. SEO agencies seem to be everywhere. Still, the technical documentation industry has not quite recognized the potential of search engine optimization. Why is that? Read more
At this year’s TC world conference, the tekom working group „Information 4.0” introduced the first results of the group’s work for defining a new content delivery standard for technical documentation in the age of Industry 4.0: iiRDS. tekom is the German association for technical communication. Read more
