Archive - Apr 2008

Using IBM Task Modeler to create DITA-based information sets

Presentation at Content Management Strategies/DITA North America, April 2008 by Kristen James Eberlein. Also presented at the 23 April 2008 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group.

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Bob Doyle

DCL Interview with Bob Doyle - Why DITA?

Data Conversion Labs recently interviewed me. Here is the link.

http://www.dclab.com/dita_legacy.asp

And here is the interview...

Why DITA? An Interview with Bob Doyle

 

The Man Who Helped Invent Video Games, Desktop Publishing, and New Tools to Help you Learn Topic-Based Authoring

 

Original Merlin handheld game.
Photo courtesy Creative Commons

 

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5-minute Flash Tutorial

For DITA Users members, we created a 5-minute Flash-based tutorial that introduces DITA Topics, Specializations for Concept, Task, and Reference, and shows how Topics are organized with DITA Maps for publishing to multiple formats.

To see the tutorial, go to http://www.ditausers.org/training/DITATopics/

For your convenience, below are the eight slides used in the animated and narrated tutorial.

If you want higher-quality images to use in a DITA presentation, please contact Bob Doyle.

 

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History of DITA

 

The history of DITA is the history of its many powerful characteristics - modularity, structured writing, information typing, separation of content from presentation, single-sourcing, minimalism, topic-based, task-orientation, content reuse, conditional processing, localization-friendly, multi-channel, component publishing, usability, consistency, object-orientation, inheritance, specialization, simplified XML.

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The Mu (2)

Observations at CMS/DITA NA

Last week in Santa Clara, the Content Management Strategies conference was held. This year, CIDM added "DITA North America" to the name. The CMS/DITA NA conference brought together a wide variety of practitioners and managers in the structured technical information arena.

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