Archive - May 2007

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Production Accounting Solution Knowledge Base/Help System

At CGI in Calgary, CGI and 4 sponsor companies are developing a new software program for production accountants in the oil and gas business. Along with the software, the writing team is developing the Help system using the DITA framework. We store information and reusable text in DITA topics and generate Eclipse Help. We have found the benefits of using DITA over the Help authoring tool we were using (RoboHelp) include DITA's reuse capability, link control via relationship tables and the output control through ditamaps.

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Bob Doyle

John Hunt: Learning Content

At the May meeting of the Boston DITA Users Group, John Hunt of IBM described the work of the DITA subcommittee for learning and training content specialization.

The goal of the subcommittee is one or more new information types for learning content, at the same level as the current three main types, concept, task, and reference, plus a new map domain to assemble the content as learning objects suitable for processing as deliverables for learning management systems (LMS).

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An invitation to join the DITA TC Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee

If you're looking for an adventure as an Information Developer in the semiconductor industry, you're invited to join a new subcommittee of the DITA Technical Committee: the Semiconductor Information Design community of practice.

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An invitation to join the DITA TC Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee

If you're looking for an adventure as an Information Developer in the semiconductor industry, you're invited to join a new subcommittee of the DITA Technical Committee: the Semiconductor Information Design community of practice.


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Lone-DITA: A DITA Community for Small Documentation Teams

The Lone-DITA site (http://www.lone-dita.com) aims to help small documentation teams and small/medium organizations to evaluate and implement DITA. The main feature of the site is a comprehesive tutorial that will guide users through the all major stages necessary to create technical documents using DITA and the DITA Open Toolkit.

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