What Is Structured Content Authoring?
Structured content authoring is the process of organizing content into a structured format that follows specific rules, separating content from layout and focusing on modularity and automation. QuarkXPress utilizes an XML-based framework to streamline content creation and management within enterprise-wide taxonomies. By storing content in a CCMS, QuarkXPress enables efficient searchability and consistent reuse across all channels, eliminating bottlenecks and expediting time-to-market.
Who Can Benefit from Structured Authoring?
Structured authoring is invaluable for enterprise organizations in highly regulated industries like financial services, life sciences, government, and manufacturing. It fosters high-quality, consistent content management, enhances productivity, supports global reusability, and reduces costs through automation. Subject-matter experts, content writers, and information architects benefit from structured content management.
Structured Content vs. Unstructured Content
Structured content enforces specific rules and schemas, ensuring consistency and ease of retrieval. Unstructured content lacks predefined rules, leading to flexibility but posing challenges in management and analysis. Structured authoring, often managed in XML, segregates content from style, facilitating better categorization, retrieval, and use of information.
The Benefits Of Structured Authoring
Structured authoring reduces costs associated with compliance-controlled content, promotes content reuse across channels, and enables fast, accurate automations. It ensures messaging consistency, compliance, and efficiency. Quark Publishing Platform NextGen offers a structured authoring software that streamlines content assembly, template design, collaborative processes, and omnichannel publishing, lowering content costs and enhancing workflows.