Archive - 2009

which type? what element? two small questions

Making yet another try at transforming a real document into DITA, with FrameMaker 8.0 and XML Mind to hand, and enjoying it no end!

Two questions so far:

which topic type

I have lists of roles and responsibilities, plus lists of working-groups and members: concept or reference? I'm inclined to say Reference, but would welcome advice

 what element

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IBM DITA Wiki: Growing DITA Across the Enterprise

Presentation at the 22 October 2008 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group by Don Day, IBM User Technologies; Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee; Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions. Jointly sponsored with the Central TX DITA User Group.

Are you curious about DITA and Wikis? Wondering whether a Wiki can be based on DITA as its source? Wondering if such DITA content can be developed by people who are not technical writers?

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A Linguist's Leap into DITA and the Open Toolkit

In a world where translators are still being asked to translate websites starting from snippets of text pasted into a Word document, PDFs of screens and even printouts of all the pages of a website, we can only hope that someday all content will be created in a structured environment like DITA XML for example.
I've created several text-rich, multilingual websites using DITA and the Open Toolkit and recently wrote an article about this for the US magazine Multilingual Computing.

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Moving to Dynamic Documents with DITA

Location: 
https://xyenterpriseevents.webex.com/mw0305l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=xyenterpriseevents&service=6
Date: 
11 Feb 2009 - 13:00 - 14:00
Event Type: 
Webinar

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2009 Conference

Location: 
Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Florida
Date: 
27 Apr 2009 - 08:00 - 29 Apr 2009 - 05:00
Event Type: 
Conference
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