Comments on: Collaborative Authoring Trends and Costs http://idratherbewriting.com/2009/12/11/collaborative-authoring-trends-and-costs/ The Latest Trends in Technical Communication Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:02:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Trends in Technical Writing -- Responding to a Reader's Questions | I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson http://idratherbewriting.com/2009/12/11/collaborative-authoring-trends-and-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-147859 Trends in Technical Writing -- Responding to a Reader's Questions | I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:30:56 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/?p=5328#comment-147859 [...] Collaborative Authoring Trends and Costs [...] [...] Collaborative Authoring Trends and Costs [...]

]]> By: Larry Kunz http://idratherbewriting.com/2009/12/11/collaborative-authoring-trends-and-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-147125 Larry Kunz Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:21 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/?p=5328#comment-147125 All of the trends are pointing this way. In fact, collaborative authoring is fast becoming the norm -- if it isn't the norm already. I'm afraid we might be in for a few years of "wild, wild west" as the various formats and solutions vie for supremacy. Eventually we'll reach consensus on a small set, driven (as you say) by open-source standards. DITA has emerged as a standard for topic creation and reuse; now we're starting to see viable open-source content management systems. Maybe the next big thing will be aligning the various community-based authoring tools with these standards. All of the trends are pointing this way. In fact, collaborative authoring is fast becoming the norm — if it isn’t the norm already.

I’m afraid we might be in for a few years of “wild, wild west” as the various formats and solutions vie for supremacy. Eventually we’ll reach consensus on a small set, driven (as you say) by open-source standards. DITA has emerged as a standard for topic creation and reuse; now we’re starting to see viable open-source content management systems. Maybe the next big thing will be aligning the various community-based authoring tools with these standards.

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