Archive - 2009

Sobre DITA

O padrão DITA OASIS Standard consolida o reuso no processo de criação de conteúdo, definindo uma arquitetura XML para projeto, redação, gerenciamento e publicação de vários tipos de informação em forma impressa ou na Web.

O padrão evolui através de um processo aberto conduzido pelo OASIS DITA Technical Committee, um grupo que encoraja novas participações de desenvolvedores e usuários.

 

Leia também:

- DITA 101 (em inglês)
- Por que DITA? (em inglês)

 

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Writer/Manager with DITA Experience Needed

Sybase is looking for Technical Publications Manager. This is a high profile, leadership and writing position for Sybase's mobility product. This is a senior position responsible for creating high-quality, usable technical documentation for our software products. Documentation includes developer, reference, and administration content as well as on-line help systems. Projects follow a rapid development cycle and involve geographically diverse teams. This role is 70% writing and 30% leadership. This is NOT a telecommuting position and will be onsite at Corporate HQ at Dublin, CA.

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Self on Help

DITA Conformance

There has been some renewed discussion within the DITA Technical Committee on what it means to be "DITA conformant". It is timely that this topic has been resurrected, because many Help Authoring Tools are now claiming DITA support of some sort or another. A draft clause in the DITA 1.2 specification proposes that tools claiming DITA support must provide a conformance statement listing what DITA features they actually implement.

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Really Strategies Acquires SaaS XML Content Management Provider DocZone.com

Audubon, Pa.—June 30, 2009—Really Strategies, Inc. announced today the successful acquisition of DocZone.com®, a SaaS XML content management provider. DocZone.com is known for its affordable DITA-based technical publications solution that is easy to configure and use. The acquisition will complement Really Strategies’ RSuite product line, offering publishers, media companies, and technical publishers an array of pricing and implementation models that fit their business needs.

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CTDUG June: "Usecases for Mashup"

In this presentation, Seth Park shows examples of use cases for mashup in real-world scenarios being defined by the Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (SIDSC) as they discover the relationship between the SIDSC specialization and pre-existing industry standard XML formats. Many people have expressed an interest in using DITA as part of a distributed information architecture. This interest comes from two primary use cases:

Get: DITA content needs data from non-DITA data sources ("DITA as primary architecture")

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