This ACM SIGDOC Structured Authoring Committee promotes collaboration between academic programs in technical communication (professors, students, researchers) and industry professionals (writers, architects, trainers, managers).
Technical communication is a big field, so we’ve narrowed the scope of the committee to structured authoring and to management of structured content.
This website hosts free resources developed by the ACM SIGDOC Structured Authoring Committee for technical communication, including resources to support college curriculums, industry speaker directories, and sample content.
We hope to bridge the gap between academic programs in technical communication and industry professionals.
Refers to a collection of standards, technologies, and best practices prevalent in the field of technical communication. Structure is created by a specific set of software-enforced rules, such as allowable elements, attributes, and relationships.
Enforced consistency allows teams to use more granular building blocks and to automate workflows for authoring, content management, and publication.