Workshop on Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Authoring
Michael Priestley |
DITA 1.0 is an OASIS standard for creating topic-oriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways. It is also an architecture for creating new information types and describing new information domains based on existing types and domains. This allows groups to create very specific, targeted document type definitions using a process called specialization, while still sharing common output transforms and design rules developed for more general types and domains.
Keywords: Documentation, XML, DITA
Motivation
DITA is gaining in popularity as a new standard at OASIS with open-source processing support as well as off-the-shelf support from a variety of content management and authoring tool vendors. The OASIS DITA Technical Committee includes representatives from a variety of company and organization users, individual users, consultants, and tool vendors. This workshop is intended to provide a practical introduction to DITA’s use as an authoring format, including the use of DITA topics for content, DITA maps for structuring and delivering content, and various DITA attributes for enabling reuse and linking.
Structure
The workshop will start with a presentation and demonstration, and then conclude with a question-and-answer session with accompanying demonstrations as required.
Participants
Anyone who attends the SIGDOC 2005 conference is welcome to participate in the workshop. There is no formal prerequisite to participate in the workshop. Although prior knowledge of XML would be beneficial, it is not absolutely needed.
Note: Please remember that you must register for the main conference to attend the workshop sessions.
Organizer
Michael Priestley is a co-editor of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) v1.0 standard, and represents IBM on the DITA Technical Committee. He works on various company-wide information initiatives at IBM, including DITA. He has written numerous papers on information design, architecture, single-sourcing, and information development processes. He has chaired the program committee for two ACM SIGDOC conferences, and is a past ACM SIGDOC Vice-Chair.