Structured Authoring

From documents to decisions: how structured authoring is changing what a standard can do 

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 There is a question that sounds almost too simple for a professional conference: what is a standard, actually? Not in a formal, definitional sense. In a practical one. What is it that a standards organization produces and hands to the world?  The instinctive answer is a document. A carefully structured, rigorously reviewed document. The result of months or

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Moving from documents to data in the Standards Publishing industry

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In a very informative and recently published report by Outsell, lead analyst Tatiana Khayrullina confirms what Forrester described earlier in its ‘Future of Documents’ report:    “Despite more than 30 years of mainstream use of office authoring tools, not much has changed. Increasingly, enterprises deliver documents to customers in forms that aren’t fit for purpose. The

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Moving from documents to data

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“Despite more than 30 years of mainstream use of office authoring tools, not much has changed. Increasingly, enterprises deliver documents to customers in forms that aren’t fit for purpose. The next decade will reveal new cloud-native, data-driven, and structured approaches to document authoring.”  Forrester, The Future Of Documents, December 2020. Wow! At Fonto we fell

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6 must-haves for a better solution to structured content authoring

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Anyone involved in creating and managing documents understands how quickly things can turn chaotic when multiple contributors and stakeholders are involved. Unfortunately, many businesses still operate the same way they did a decade ago: emailing Word files and PDFs across teams to collect input and approvals. These archaic ways of working no longer cut it, according

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Structured authoring = Discipline x Enjoyable software

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If you’re thinking about the adoption of a structured authoring tool like FontoXML, you should read the article on this topic by Barry Schaeffer (2013). In this article Barry, a veteran of more than 45 years in the content automation industry, not only describes the ‘tortured relationship’ between Word and XML (we also wrote about

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