Mark Schubert
Senior Technical Consultant
Mark is a technical consultant at parson and supports clients from the software industry regarding authoring tools and publishing solutions. DITA, DocBook, and other document type definitions are part of his daily routine. Due to his experience as a technical communicator, he knows XML-based authoring firsthand. Mark has been an acting member of the iiRDS working groups from the start and was head of working group Development for five years. Currently, he is member of the iiRDS working groups Development and Tools. As an iiRDS Ambassador he is participating in working groups of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry IOF.
Latest articles by Mark Schubert
It’s November 2025 and I just came back from this year’s tcworld conference. Pretty much a year ago in November 2024 Anthropic introduced an open-source standard, the Model Context Protocol MCP. It allows connecting apps and servers to generative AI such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
Technology moves fast these days; generative AI moves lightning fast. And a year was enough for developers in all domains to develop thousands of MCP applications. When I first heard about MCP servers earlier this year, I immediately had to try some of Anthropic’s reference implementations. Seeing the LLM doing actual work on my laptop was eye opening. read more
Looking back at ConVEx 2025 in San Jose, generative AI was still everywhere. While some are still trying to figure out its impact on technical writing, others are stressing that everyone needs to incorporate it into their daily work. Here are some paraphrased quotes: read more
Chatbots, generative AI, and large language models were still everywhere at this year’s tcworld conference. Alex Jitianu from our partner Syncro Soft talked about GenAI and the evolving domain of prompting. read more
The iiRDS Consortium has developed a plugin to support DITA content. The iiRDS package is easy to use and can be customized to meet your project’s needs. read more
iiRDS is becoming increasingly popular in the industry and is being continuously developed by the iiRDS working group Development. On November 10, 2023, the new version 1.2 of iiRDS was released. We summarize the most important new features for you. read more
