Archive - 2008

DITA XLIFF recorded webinars are available for download

The "DITA to XLIFF and Back" webinars were presented by members of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TCs.

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What are inner and outer topics?

Several toolkit build files refer to inner and outer dita topics. For example, 

<target name="dita.topics.html" unless="noTopic" if="old.transform" description="Build HTML files from inner and outer dita topics,which will adjust the directory.

Any clue what that means?

DITA for Conditional Text (Webinar)

Location: 
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=cfc03ec8-ff79-48c0-ad5e-3d406a9ba35f
Date: 
31 Oct 2008 - 12:30 - 14:00
Event Type: 
Webinar

DITA, Metada, and Taxonomy

Joint meeting of the Central Texas DITA User Group and the RTP DITA Users' Group on September 24, 2008. Presentations by Mike Harris, Robert Berry, and Paul Arellanes (IBM).

DITA contains ready-to-go metadata structures, but what are best practices for using those solutions in a meaningful way for your writing teams? Learn what team members should know and who to identify to take on the tasks related to taxonomy definitions. Also decide how to identify those taxonomy definitions in your content management system (CMS).

Additional resources:

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DITA for Technical Standards (DTS)

DTS Home Reference Page 

This is a proposed new subcommittee for enhancing DITA for use with standards development and publishing - 'A Standard for Standards'

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