There were some interesting suggestions: Irdis (Ürdis), Ay-Two-Ar-Dee (I2RD) and Ay-Ar-Dee (IRD). But then someone mentioned Ar-Two-Dee-Two, and that was the end of the discussion.
New: iiRDSiiRDS Café
The iiRDS Café was a success. For almost three hours, several iiRDS experts answered questions. Marion Knebel presented "iiRDS in DITADITA". Mark Schubert explained the metadatametadata format and the iiRDS package format.
iiRDS package and metadata format
A year in review and a look ahead
What has happened at iiRDS in the last year? What happens next? That was the topic of the presentation by Ulrike Parson and Mark Schubert.
The iiRDS consortium and the steering committee started their work, version 1.0 was released, and the iiRDS working groups were formed. Slides.
Intelligent information is now available in documentation, marketing, and service. Intelligent information complements smart applications, components, and systems. And just like services and components in Industry 4.0 environments, intelligent information must be interlinked. But the switch to intelligent information can be elaborate. Read more
A presentation about how to decide between two standards for the exchange of technical documentation, iiRDS and VDI 2770, is certainly not everyone's cup of tea. Read more
The ongoing digitization of business requires us to rethink how we deliver user information. Technical documentation with hundreds of pages within one document is no longer viable. Today, we must deliver small content modules that show only the content that users need at a particular moment in time and in a particular context. Users need intelligent content or intelligent information instead of documentation. Read more
Since the beginning, parson has been involved in the development and documentation of the standard. At conferences and talks, we report on the status of the development and its practical application. In this blog, we want to answer some of the most frequent questions we have been getting. Read more
I'm an old hand at the tcworld conference and shouldn't be too excited when giving a talk. But when Dieter Gust and I brought our crackpot idea to the stage, the documentation trend slam, I started to feel queasy. Read more