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UX Graz Meetup Notes
Tue 25 May 2016 "Technical Documentation"
Herzl Weinstube
Prokopigasse 12 / Mehlplatz
8010 Graz
tel +43-316-824300
office@dieherzl.at
http://dieherzl.at/
Twitter: @uxgraz #uxgraz
Schedule
18:00 Start
18:30 “Technical Documentation: Making Documentation Usable"
Werner Schwaiger
FH Joanneum Graz, Masterlehrgang Technische Dokumentation (TED)
19:00 “Case Studies: Technical Documentation in the Real World”
o Synnøva O'Gorman
Hyperwave, Graz
o Stefan Barowitsch
Komptech, Frohnleiten
o Christian Pschaid
itl - Agentur für technische Dokumentation, Vienna
20:00 Discussion
21:00 End
Attendees
Keith Andrews
Konrad Baumann
Werner Schwaiger
Synnøva O'Gorman
Stefan Barowitsch
Andrei Parvu
Hannes Robier
Peter Zurk
Meetup Notes
Technical Documentation: Making Documentation Usable
Werner Schwaiger
New MSc part-time in Technical Documentation, slated to start in Mar 2017 at
FH Joanneum.
extra-occupational (berufsbegleitend)
intended to cover the needs of technical writers
only two other degrees in Technical Documentation in Austria (Krems and Wels)
lectures concentrated at weekends
curriculum is on the slides
BMW in Munich Tech Doc has around 25 full-time and upto
100 contract workers
“Case Studies: Technical Documentation in the Real World”
Synnøva O'Gorman, Hyperwave, Graz
online help is modular, a linked hypertext structure,
it is no longer hierarchical
help button is context-sensitive
not just a html version of the pdf manual
search that works cf local search on web sites
appropriate level of detail, not too much and not too little
Stefan Barowitsch, Komptech, Frohnleiten
xml to collect and aggregate diverse sources of info
xlst style sheets to generate whatever format/version/language is necessary
3d models, combined with metadata from product catalogs and various other sources
CatalogCreator, from TID Informatik, written in php
mobile server on a usb stick, local web serevr
create dynamic linked diagrams and vector graphics inside PDF
XVL player plugin for 3d models
Christian Pschaid, itl - Agentur für technische Dokumentation, Vienna
The informal notes of the meetup will be written both live and afterwards (anyone can edit) in the etherpad at:
http://pad.okfn.org/p/uxgraz-2016-05-24 (links to this page! = in case someone saves the page or prints it out)
Future Meetups
If you would like to give a short presentation, book review, or have
other suggestions for a future meetup, please email Keith Andrews (kandrews@iicm.edu).