Archive - Feb 2006

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Members Approve DITA as OASIS Standard

OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. DITA defines an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing many kinds of information in print and on the Web. Arbortext, BMC Software, IBM, Idiom, Innodata Isogen, Intel, Nokia, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, the U.S. Department of Defense, and others participated in defining this XML architecture for publishing.

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Central Texas DITA User Group

To be developed.

Charter:

The Central Texas User Group exists to share and advance knowledge and adoption of DITA in the central Texas region.

2006 meetings:

Winter-Spring focus: DITA basics and experience reports
  • January 26: JoAnn Hackos (date adjusted to her local presence for a workshop)
  • February 15: Kristin Thomas (IBM) on AIX documentation experiences with DITA
  • March 15: (suggested--Task Modeler demo by Steve Arellanes)
  • April 19: Trip reports from DITA 2006 and Content Management Strategies Conference
  • May 17: (suggested--France Baril on Ixiasoft/CEDROM-Sni experience report)
  • June and on :Summertime focus: Demos (editors, CMS, etc.)

Roles:

The group discussed the roles necessary to accomplish the charter and goals of CTDUG. Everyone preferred to keep it as informal as possible while still ensuring that we keep momentum. The group agreed that the following roles are necessary, and we will rotate the people in these roles on an as needed basis.

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Suggesting enhancements to the DITA Standard and Toolkit

This page is intended to facilitate collaboration on ideas for enhancing the DITA specification and the Open Source DITA tools. Add your ideas for new features and capabilities in DITA, and suggestions for improving the flexibility and robustness of the architecture.

 

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Specializations

DITA Specialization is the means by which the standard DITA language may be extended for new semantic or structural roles.

 

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