Structured authoring

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Definitions

Structured authoring and structured content

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Formats

The most popular formats today are:

• DocBook and DITA for single source authoring (both text and online)
• Latex, an older less structured format that is still very popular in science.
• XHTML (mostly just online, though the language is rich enough to markup moderatly complex documents.

For educational contents, see:

• eLML (eLesson Markup Language)

Note: IMS Content Packaging just packs sequences in XML format. Isolated contents themselves (modules) are not structured.

See document standard for more

Bibliography

Tutorials

O'Keefe, Sarah (2008) whitepaper on structured authoring, Scriptorium.com

Propaganda articles

• Thinking Outside the (Tech Docs) Box: Structured Authoring as Competitive Advantage, by J. Sorofman, The Content Wrangler, May 2008. This site has other articles on structured content.