Speakers and presenters at NLDITA 2010

Below a listing of speakers at the NLDITA 2010. This list will continuously be updated, please come back and check regularly!

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Désiré Baartman and Bieke van der Korst

Consultant concepting at ThiemeMeulenhoff and IT-consultant and software-developer at Ambrac 

How did ThiemeMeulenhoff, a publisher of educational content choose for DITA as standard for storing content? [more]

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Yves Barbion

Managing Director of Scripto bvba

Will present:  Where do you keep your files? Collaborative content development on a common platform [more]

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Thomas Barthel

Senior Business Development Manager at SDL Structured Content Technologies 

People too often talk about DITA in ways that don’t matter to management who are thinking about strategic issues in their business. During this talk, Thomas Barthel and Frank Closset want to take the conversation up a level, and talk about why DITA is key and how DITA can be one potent weapon to a company’s global strategy? [meer]

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John van Beek

Consultant Software, Internet & Media IQuality

We laten zien hoe DITA in combinatie met generiek content management (Sitecore) toegepast kan worden. [meer]

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Sissi Closs

Professor of Information and Media Technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

Key Note speaker and introduction spreker NLDITA 2010 Executive Tea [more]

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Frank Closset

CTO at SDL Structure Content Technologies

People too often talk about DITA in ways that don’t matter to management who are thinking about strategic issues in their business. During this talk, Thomas Barthel and Frank Closset want to take the conversation up a level, and talk about why DITA is key and how DITA can be one potent weapon to a company’s global strategy? [more]

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Jang Graat 
Jang Communications

will present DITA for Dummies in DITA voor managers

The basic concepts of DITA explained so that even my mother would understand them. [more]

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Kees de Grauw
consultant at Eluxis

presents a in Use Cases:

DITA for Datasheets and Web content [more]

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Erik M. Hartman

MA (Communications and Information Management, University Utrecht ‐ NL) is owner of the vendor neutral consultancy company Hartman Communicatie and a founding member of CM Professionals, the eGovernment Community, and The Information Management Foundation (TIMAF).

Chair of the NLDITA 2010 Executive Tea [more]

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Christian Kravogel

Chairman of the DITA Machine Industry Subcommittee at OASIS and since 2004 owner of SeicoDyne

Will speak on the Machinery Specification. [more]

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Torsten Machert
General Director Ovidius GMBH

[meer]

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Jan Meijer
CEO Importalis

On the use of DITA at the Council of the State. [more]

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Elliot Nedas

Business Development Manager XML-INTL 

The Path To Efficient DITA Translation

Translating DITA can be challenging and advising your service providers and translators what to do is often harder than it should be. The good news is that translating DITA need not be a nightmare. [more]

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Laurens van den Oever 
CEO, Xopus BV

Will present user friendly DITA in DITA voor Managers [more]

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Mark Poston
senior technical consultant at MEKON and an active member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee  

presents Delivering User Documentation in New and Dynamic Ways

The presentation shows how DITA can be delivered dynamically using XQuery and XML databases. It discusses the fact that we can publish dynamically and avoid the static outputs created by the DITA Open Toolkit. It provides simple examples (not too technical!!) of how XQuery is used on the DITA topics to create the demo dynamic system. [more - presentation in English]

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Erik Siegel
Owner Xatapult

DITA processing without the Open Toolkit

For DITA processing normally the DITA OT is used. But what if that's not an option? In this presentation the story of why the OT could not be used and an alternative solution. High level presentation in Dutch.
Key words: DITA-maps, QTI, IMS Content Packaging, CZP     [more]

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Mick van Sliedregt
Tedopres specialist

Geeft een presentatie over SVG tekeningen, single source illustrations, geplaatst in een DITA component. [more]

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Mark Speyer
Independend consultant

Gives an overview over new features in DITA 1.2.
Learn about the new exciting features of the DITA 1.2 specification which includes several additions, including a Learning and Training specialization, a Machine-industry specialization, new support for glossary entries and acronyms and abbreviations, and the ability to constrain the standard DITA information types. [more]

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Birgit Strackenbrock
Technical consultant, iCtrl

will present a case study in DITA for authors.

This case study describes how the DITA standard is specialized and used to meet the needs of NedTrain and the authors to create and maintain more than 3.000 maintenance instructions. [more]

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Peter Stroes

Mede-oprichter en directeur van Triview Technical Communication en Triview Publishing Technologies

DITA, theorie óf praktijk

Nog altijd ontwikkelen de meeste organisaties hun documentatie in Word(-achtige omgevingen). Uit de praktijk weten we dat mensen niet zo eenvoudig switchen naar nieuwe technologie én methodieken [meer]

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Remco van Toor

Software Architect IQuality

We laten zien hoe DITA in combinatie met generiek content management (Sitecore) toegepast kan worden. [meer]

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Nico Verwer
software architect, Withart

Presents  Making DITA specialisations without pain

This presentation shows a solution for making and maintaining DITA specializations. The solution has successfully been used in a project at the Dutch Council of the state, on which Jan Meijer will speak in an othee presentation    [more - presentation in Dutch] 

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Frans Wijma
Managing Director at Shufra

Geeft een presentatie over hoe Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100) kan helpen bij een succesvolle DITA implementatie. 

In his presentation, Dr. Frans Wijma will explain how the ASD-STE100 specification works in practice, with industry examples and details on implementation lessons learned.  [more]

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