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DCL Interview with Bob Doyle - Why DITA?

Blog entry: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Mon, 2008-04-14 00:37. Last updated on Mon, 2008-04-14 00:43.

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 Doyle

The 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

Wiki page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Mon, 2008-04-14 00:28. Last updated on Mon, 2008-04-14 15:40.

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

Book page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Sun, 2008-04-13 21:47. Last updated on Sun, 2015-10-25 00:28.

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.

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Observations at CMS/DITA NA

Blog entry: Submitted by muir on Sun, 2008-04-13 20:52. Last updated on Sun, 2008-04-13 21:01.

Last week in Santa Clara, the Content Management Strategies conference was held. This year, CIDM added "DITA North America" to the name. The CMS/DITA NA conference brought together a wide variety of practitioners and managers in the structured technical information arena.