Mark is a technical consultant at parson and supports clients from the software industry regarding authoring tools and publishing solutions. DITA, DocBook, and other document type definitions are part of his daily routine. Due to his experience as a technical communicator, he knows XML-based authoring firsthand. Mark has been an acting member of the iiRDS working groups from the start and was head of working group Development for five years. Currently, he is member of the iiRDS working groups Development and Tools. As an iiRDS Ambassador he is participating in working groups of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry IOF.
When you write technical documentation, you manage a great deal of knowledge. Technical communicators evaluate and apply domain knowledge every day. For that, skills in knowledge modeling are extremely useful. more...