English and Multilingual Deployment of DITA

DITA, which is already widely adopted in Europe and the United States. Various manufacturers are utilizing DITA to efficiently create and manage vast and frequently updated manuals and documents.
The number of domestic manufacturers adopting or considering DITA is gradually increasing, and it is expected to become mainstream in the future.
Human Science participates in the DITA Consortium Japan as a DITA player, providing dissemination activities for DITA and specialized services that support DITA.

Solution Process

Based on the document and manual production know-how cultivated since our establishment in 1985,
we propose an efficient management, operation, and maintenance flow for large volumes of documents utilizing systems.

Pre-implementation Consulting

• Hearing (Confirmation of Customer's Concerns and Requests)

  • ・Document Management・Investigation of Operational Status
  • - Analysis and evaluation of manual and document structure

Design

• Design and Requirements Definition

  • Manuals, document design, document structure, design layout, organization of information, etc.
  • ・System (CMS) Design

Development

• Development

  • ・System (CMS) Development

Implementation Support

• Pre-implementation Training
• Operations
• Support

We will propose production tailored to your needs from implementation to operation.

• ・Reorganization of manuals and documents
• ・Manual Rewrite
• 　>>Benefits of rewriting documents before implementing DITA
• - Componentization, Topic Writing (in the case of DITA)
• ・Translation
• - Coding, XML editing

DITA Services Provided by Human Science

Cost Reduction for Translation Costs (Repetition Parts)

In standard documents, even when using translation support software, a cost of about 10% of the translation fee is incurred for Repetition (*). However, in DITA, which is managed independently on a unit basis, there are no Repetition costs at the paragraph level.
* When the same section appears repeatedly, it can be reused at the sentence level.

Reduction of Work Cycle

By translating in unit increments, we can continuously provide our clients with translated texts in smaller units. There is no need to check a large volume of documents all at once. This resolves the issue of "not having enough time to check thoroughly."

Stable Workflow

The XML standard used in DITA is not affected by the computer environment. In applications like Word, there are issues where the appearance of files varies depending on the environment, often leading to adjustments between translation companies and clients. On the other hand, DITA is environment-independent, and when processed through translation support software, it does not affect layouts, significantly reducing the man-hours required in the pre- and post-translation processes.

Cost reduction through DTP automation

With DITA, you can automatically generate documents for multiple media (PDF/HTML/CHM/ePub, etc.) from a single source. This eliminates the need for editing and authoring tasks that were previously required for each medium.
Especially in multilingual projects, it significantly reduces the editing and authoring costs and efforts that were required for each language.