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Key Concept Archive

For more information about how our library science background (and our love of all things metadata) guides the way we catalog information, see the Techcomm and Arbortext Resources page.

Paper or ePub?

Did you know that reading on a kindle or other electronic device isn't the same to your brain as reading on paper? Well, as it turns out: Neuroscience, in fact, has revealed that humans use different parts of the brain…

Conference notes from: World IA Day 2016

Last month I went to World IA Day 2016 in Seattle. I'm based in San Francisco, which also hosted World IA Day event, but every now and again it's good to get out of your little corner of the world and…

Inclusive vs Exclusive Language and Corporate Culture

It seems that as of 6/5/2019, the GSA has pulled the article down. Good thing we captured what we did! The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA.gov) website recently published an article (and the code to go with it) about how they…

Metadata and Taxonomy Workshop for DITA Authoring Teams

Upcoming Dates This class is scheduled on demand but, if you want to know more, you can view a preview of the material in our public presentation about these concepts. We also offer publicly available, virtual, instructor-led, classes focused on…

Common Questions: Change Markup

This week’s topic: Change Tracking & Change Markup Change markup has historically been something that you had to implement yourself in XML publishing. Arbortext supports typical change markup behavior in the standard document types, and with a small amount of…

Common Questions: Language Support in Arbortext

This week’s topic: Language support in ArbortextXML publishing systems makes translation less expensive all-around. The biggest cost of translating content produced in traditional tools is the DTP that must be done on the content once it's been translated. Some languages…