I have just received notification of the feedback from a survey carried out by Data Conversion Labs (DCL) that I took part in not too long ago. Apparently they had over 200 participants which I suppose was not too bad considering the fairly small number of people that know about this company in the US.
Results Outline related to S1000D
Why am I mentioning this you may be asking. Well, bearing in mind the survey was about documentation, one of the questions was "How familiar are you with the following terms:" and this included S1000D. The responses were, I thought, interesting.
- Very familiar with the term - 23%
- Heard of it but unsure what it is - 22%
- Unfamiliar with the term - 55%
I will leave you to look at the results of the other terms yourselves by looking at the survey. But given that the other terms included Content Reuse and Single Source Publishing, both concepts high on the S1000D priority list there is clearly a large amount of education still to be done. Of course, S1000D is particularly designed for Technical Documentation associated with Hardware and Software so this may well prove to be the reason.
Who Took Part
According to the survey the respondents by and large came from Hardware/Equipment manufacturers and Services (which I assume means the armed forces - or does it?).
Country
One of the questions related to "Where are you located?" but unfortunately the results gave just two categories; US and Other Country. It might be interesting to see where else the respondents were located.
Another Survey in 12 Months?
It would be very interesting to see the results of a similar survey carried out in 12 months time. Would there, I wonder, be a significantly different set of figures for S1000D?
1 comment:
I'd like to check out the DCL survey, but your link is dead. Anywhere else I can find it??
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