Quark Hosts Pubs-XML User Group Meeting
On Wednesday, June 22, Quark Inc. will host a Quark XML Author and Pubs-XML user group meeting in the Washington D.C. area.
On Wednesday, June 22, Quark Inc. will host a Quark XML Author and Pubs-XML user group meeting in the Washington D.C. area. Featured guest Marie Rundquist, government contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) and president of North Fork Technical Solutions, will share her best practices for “Writing for Discoverability.”
The event is for members of the intelligence community responsible for creating content for classification, declassification, handling, and dissemination. Quark will provide an overview of Pubs-XML v5, the XML data encoding specification for intelligence publications, as well as detail Quark’s new commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that supports Pubs-XML v5 and allows any Microsoft Word user to author content that meets the intelligence community standard (ICS).
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Time: 2:30pm to 5:30pm Eastern
Location: Microsoft Offices (5405 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500, Chevy Chase, MD 20815)
Room: 5182 A
Register: To register contact Jim Green at jgreen@quark.com.
Special guest Marie Rundquist has leveraged Quark XML Author to increase the findability of her client’s content by 400 percent. She said, “My primary focus is helping clients in the government intelligence sector implement effective solutions for creating discoverable content. At the user group meeting I will share both my methodology for creating compliant, searchable content and the tool set I find most effective, which includes Quark XML Author.”
Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word
Quark XML Author is an add-in to Microsoft Word that allows anyone using Microsoft Word to easily create structured XML content without knowledge of XML and little or no training. The familiar, simple, and full-featured user interface makes it possible for anyone – not just technical experts – to use Microsoft Word to create valid XML-based content components that can be published to a variety of print and digital media.
Quark XML Author offers off-the-shelf integration with leading content management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, and IBM FileNet Content Manager. These integrations allow users to access common features of the CMS directly from within Word, as well as collaborate beyond Word to comment and change tracking through the use of formal workflows.
Read more here: http://www.quark.com/Products/Quark_XML_Author/.

