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.
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 DoyleThe 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
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.
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.