Single source publishing
Under single-source publishing (also single source output so as to Winword -) originally was understood method to create multiple output formats from a source macros to generate and paragraph styles from a Winword document both print output, as well as online formats such as Winhelp and HTML.
This approach worked with simple 1: 1 relationships between paragraph formats and output formatting, for example "Heading1 ... Heading3 means the beginning of a new (HTML / Winhelp) page (topic), Heading4 is the beginning of a pop-up". A table of contents can be given a heading1-topic with the following heading2-topics with simple means, thus enabling a hierarchical call-up of the topics. So worked z. B. until about 2003 Doc-to-Help .
Newer concepts that rely heavily on metadata and content labeling e.g. B. with XML methods, meanwhile allow more complex processing algorithms. The “actual document” is increasingly becoming a collection of references to data modules, which are mostly stored in a database. These data modules contain content-oriented markups, typically with XML tags. The authoring tool “knows” a lot more about the content and can therefore also use more powerful processing algorithms such as database publishing . Extreme examples of such approaches are J2008 and S1000D .
The main goal of such systems is the multiple use of existing data modules. A topic, a warning notice, an often used instruction are simply kept in the database and integrated into the output instance if necessary.
Viewed in this way, single source publishing is becoming a variety of content management .
See also
literature
- Ann Rockley : Developing a Business Case for Single Sourcing and Content Management ( Memento from August 6, 2017 in the web archive archive.today ) Society for Technical Communication (STC) 50th annual conference in Dallas, Texas May 2003
- Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur, Steve Manning: Tools and Technologies In: Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy New Riders Press 2003 p. 265ff ISBN 978-0-7357-1306-2 ( limited preview )
- Sissi Closs : Single Source Publishing. Topic-oriented structuring and DITA. developer.press, Munich 2006 ISBN 978-3-935042-98-7
- Gerhard Kirchner: Practical application of product information management in single source publishing - automatic generation of catalogs, price lists and internet shops , expert verlag , Renningen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8169-2897-3