Archive - 2008
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DITA Metrics: Developing Cost Metrics
You’ve read all the papers (and attended all the webinars) on return on investment (ROI) for XML and you get it. You’ve already concluded that moving to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) will likely save you tons of time and money. But management says, “Prove it!”.
This paper helps you determine the cost portion of the ROI calculation. What are my costs now? What will my new costs be with DITA? And what is the difference—my savings?
Managing Content and Producing Output with the Eclipse IDE
Presentation at the 23 July 2008 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group by Tom Ed White, Tekelec.
DITA 1.2: Understanding the upcoming release
Presentation at the 27 August meeting of the Central Texas DITA User Group and the RTP DITA Users' Group by Robert Anderson, IBM, Chief Architect of the DITA Open Toolkit.
The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization
Presentation at the 25 June 2008 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group by Carolyn Inkster, IBM.
The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization (TSS) was released by IBM in 2007. Consistent, quality troubleshooting documentation is extremely important to customers and support costs. Come learn about the process the team went through to develop the architecture and specialization itself as well as how to use the specialization with the DITA Open Toolkit 1.4.
Brushing your teeth with DITA: Leveraging relationships to improve usability
Presentation at the 28 May 2008 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group by Shane Taylor, Computer Task Group. Originally presented at DITA 2006 by Shane Taylor and Karen Mobley (IBM).