Developing the Annotated Topic List for DITA Enterprise Content
Learn how to use an Annotated Topic List (ATL) to plan your dita projects enterprise-wide, set up topic titles, file names, short descriptions, and metadata in an excel spreadsheet and transform the excel spreadsheet into a DITA map with all of the topic stubs. Using the ATL to plan your topics ensures that you achieve maximum topic reuse.
Meet the Presenters
Dawn Stevens is Vice President of Operations and partner at Comtech Services. With over 25 years of experience, including 15 years at Comtech, Dawn has practical experience in virtually every role within a documentation and training department, including project management, instructional design, writing, editing, and multimedia programming. With both engineering and technical communication degrees, Dawn combines a solid technical foundation with strong writing and design skills to identify and remove the challenges her clients face in producing usable, technical information and training.