http://confabb.com/conferences/cci2008/sessions/6544 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:54 GMT Attendee Reviews of Bring Documents to Life: Transform How Information is Shared, Consumed and Utilized with Dynamic Documents http://confabb.com/conferences/cci2008/sessions/6544/details#355 Amber Swope compared the pros and cons of documents and applications. Documents are persistent, portable, contextual, and ad hoc. But they are also static and disconnected. Applications are dynamic, interactive, and authoritative. But they have little context or persistence, are not portable, and are monolithic. Amber used a mortgage document as an example of a dynamic document. It begins as a document, turns into a transation as data is added in (names, mortgage amount, payment terms, etc), and then becomes a document again--one that must persist. There is a need to bridge the divided worlds of documents and applications and vendors are moving in this direction with products that deliver dynamic content. Amber presented a DITA Maturity Model. To get to the dynamic document level requires collaboration with IT. This very good presentation was marred only by vendor-specific terminology on the slides. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:54 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/cci2008/sessions/6544/details#355 Claudia Wunder