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== Definitions ==
== Definitions ==
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'''Structured authoring''' and '''structured content''' refer to development, deployment and management of structured contents.
'''Structured authoring''' and '''structured content''' refer to development, deployment and management of structured contents.


{{quotation|Structured authoring is a publishing workflow that lets you define and enforce consistent organization of information in documents, whether printed or online. ([http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf whitepaper on structured authoring])
{{quotation|Structured authoring is a publishing workflow that lets you define and enforce consistent organization of information in documents, whether printed or online. ([http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf whitepaper on structured authoring])}}


== Discussion ==
== Discussion ==


Writing structured contents is more difficult but there are benefits like:
Writing structured contents is more difficult than writing with an ordinary word processor, but there are benefits like:
* Flexible publishing (books on demand)
* Flexible publishing (books on demand)
* Single sourcing for many formats and devices
* Single sourcing for many formats and devices
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The most popular formats today are:
The most popular formats today are:
* [[DocBook]] and [[DITA]] for single source authoring (both text and online)
* [[DocBook]] and [[DITA]] for single source authoring (both text and online)
* Latex, an older less structured format that is still very popular in science.
* Latex, an older less structured format that remains very popular in science.
* [[XHTML]] (mostly just online, though the language is rich enough to markup moderatly complex documents.
* [[XHTML]] (mostly just to authr web pages, though the language is rich enough to markup moderately complex documents.


For educational contents, see:
For educational contents, see:

Revision as of 21:33, 25 September 2008

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Definitions

Structured authoring and structured content refer to development, deployment and management of structured contents.

“Structured authoring is a publishing workflow that lets you define and enforce consistent organization of information in documents, whether printed or online. (whitepaper on structured authoring)”

Discussion

Writing structured contents is more difficult than writing with an ordinary word processor, but there are benefits like:

  • Flexible publishing (books on demand)
  • Single sourcing for many formats and devices
  • Better support for search and data retrieval
  • Easy redesign of style
  • etc.

(more later, this article is just a stub)

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 remains very popular in science.
  • XHTML (mostly just to authr web pages, though the language is rich enough to markup moderately 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

Links

Bibliography

Tutorials

O'Keefe, Sarah (2008) whitepaper on structured authoring, Scriptorium.com. There is a list of other interesting white papers in tutorial format.

Propaganda articles