All entries for Standardization

parson supports CARIAD with technical writing

March 28, 2022

We are happy to announce a new project reference. Since 2018 we support CARIAD, the software subsidiary in the Volkswagen Group, to write specifications for navigation databases. more...

parson becomes member of IDiS

November 11, 2021

We are pleased to announce that parson has become a member of the German network "Initiative Digitale Standards" (IDiS). We will actively participate in the "Use Cases" workgroup. more...

What espresso has to do with standards for content engineering

by Uta Lange on August 25, 2020

Imagine yourself in the kitchen at half past six in the morning and your espresso machine is not working. You might still be half asleep, but I guess you will do a quick google search. And you will probably get information quickly from different channels: a website or as PDF, a video in a social media channel, a mobile application, or a chatbot. more...

iiRDS – The Current Status

by on December 19, 2017

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. more...

Chaotic wiki vs. structured authoring

by Ulrike Parson on June 22, 2015

Wikis are old, and old are the problems that wiki authors and readers struggle with. Collaborative authoring in wikis might tap new synergies but often the outcome is as chaotic as a humming beehive.  So how can you structure your content? How can you make it accessible? How can you organize reviews and input supply? more...