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In my line of work I write a lot. Much of this goes into training manuals which I offer to clients for use in training courses. This is currently done by just keeping Word documents for each chapter and topic. At times, information is shared between multiple courses, so I just copy a document from one to the other and rewrite.
However, with 25 books currently in use, many sharing information, I'm thinking there HAS to be a better way. Like some sort of writing database system where I can say "Plug in the module on the OSI model here", and allow dozens of people to work on the same draft without having them overwrite each others' changes. That way a topic can be "checked out", edited, and then immediately published into the 10 books that it is part of.
I've read a little bit on IBM's DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) but don't know anyone using it and am not sure if it really is what I'm looking for. Anyone here have any experience with this type of thing?
However, with 25 books currently in use, many sharing information, I'm thinking there HAS to be a better way. Like some sort of writing database system where I can say "Plug in the module on the OSI model here", and allow dozens of people to work on the same draft without having them overwrite each others' changes. That way a topic can be "checked out", edited, and then immediately published into the 10 books that it is part of.
I've read a little bit on IBM's DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) but don't know anyone using it and am not sure if it really is what I'm looking for. Anyone here have any experience with this type of thing?