Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

[David Spreadbury]

Maxwell,
Thank you very much. I have been following this thread because I have one product line that is almost entirely Unstructured and would like to convert it to Structured, with eventually moving on to DITA. This list of videos looks like it should be able to get this project going smoothly.





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> From: Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com>
>To: Writer <generic668 at yahoo.ca>; Pat Christenson <pxenson at gmail.com>; "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> 
>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:59 PM
>Subject: RE: Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured
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>The location of the Aldous webinar series has been moved to an Adobe server.
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>To speed things up for you on the link to Tom Aldous'  7-part series (it is excellent; I went through it), here are links to individual episodes:
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>Part 1: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 1: Analyzing Your Unstructured Document - Preprocess Steps
>    http://adobe.ly/PfkRYK
>Part 2: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 2: Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 1
>    http://adobe.ly/Q5BtGM
>Part 3: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 3: Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 2
>    http://adobe.ly/Pfl1Q1
>Part 4: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 4: Element Definition Document (EDD) - Home Grown or a Standard
>    http://adobe.ly/Q5C0sf
>Part 5: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 5: Creating your Structured Template from an Unstructured One
>    http://adobe.ly/Q5C8b9
>Part 6: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 6: Structure Applications and What Is Necessary and How To Create
>    http://adobe.ly/Q5CjTY
>Part 7: Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 7: Save As XML, Now What?
>    http://adobe.ly/PfliCp
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>Each link will take you to what appears to be an event registration page. You will need to log in with free Adobe.com account credentials. If you have difficulties accessing the recording with the latest version of Chrome, try Firefox or Internet Explorer. 
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>NOTE: this series covers virtually every step for setting up a modified or customized structured application in FrameMaker (in addition to the conversion.) Please be aware that the latest version of FrameMaker (v11) has even better support for DITA "out-of-the-box", so the experience would be easier, were you to upgrade to the latest version. Once you have set up a good set of conversion tables, they should work for most of your content, if your unstructured documents have consistent formatting.
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>I hope this set of links is helpful to all.
>
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>From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer
>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:52 PM
>To: Pat Christenson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: Re: Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured
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>I haven't watched them, but Tom Aldous has e-seminars about conversion here: http://tmaldous.com/2012/03/05/7-part-e-seminar-series-unstructured-to-xml-framemaker-10-instructional-series/
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>Nadine
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>> I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in 
>> either Frame 9 or 10. Does anyone have any tips, tools or online 
>> resources that would be helpful for such a project?
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> 
>> Pat Christenson
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