The conversion of a hefty hard copy manual used by interviewers at the Biomedical Research Informatics Core for data entry into a self-contained wiki site was one project assigned to me as technical writer. This involved applying concepts covered in my Digital Rhetoric classes to the Wiki’s organic development and sophisticated formatting, planning for what content will be used in multiple processes and how those articles could be improved through being condensed or adding visual media.

Each page became a module, I removed repeated topics from larger articles and substituted them with links to newly established articles. This method produced highly specialized content through its referential links allowing interviewers to access instructional materials on-the-fly.

Within weeks, along with guidance from the programmers on staff, I developed a fully functional digital guide for each process and how they relate to one another, including Use Cases to complement the interview interface. The end result was a far more versatile and accessible document which one could update without breaking what was once a static structure.