Documentation techniques for the 21st century (draft)

This paper is a work in progress. I expect to post the final draft in January 2011.

Index

1. Changing technology, evolving documentation
2. Information revolution?
3. Data for humans vs. data for machines
4. The components of modern documents
5. How word processing became information processing
6. Stealth data
7. Why standardize content?
8. What is standardized content?
9. Poor writers, poor readers
10. Spin doctors
11. The future of your content
12. A brief introduction to simplified language
13. The missing link
14. The editorial department
15. The publishing workflow
16. Three-dimensional documents
17. What is a taxonomy?
18. Why implement a taxonomic system?
19. How to create successful taxonomies