At the October meeting of the Boston DITA Users Group (held last Thursday evening at the DocTrain East 2007 Conference), Amber Swope of JustSystems reported on the Bookmap specialization in DITA 1.1.
You can find a one-hour Flash movie of Amber's presentation at
http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/ditamaps/bookmaps_swope
We had some technical difficulty and Amber had to speak for the first several minutes without her slides.
What's new in DITA 1.1:
Version 1.1 of DITA provides enhanced print publishing capabilities with new DITA Bookmap specialization, including extended book metadata. The standard offers more indexing capabilities with new elements for "see" and "see-also" references. It features new elements for defining structured metadata as well as the ability to add new metadata attributes through specialization.
The specification files (HTML and PDF Spec documents, DITA source, DTDs and Schemas) are available here:
White paper from SIberLogic that includes the additional benefits (such as traceability) of integrating SiberSafe DITA Edition with our knowledge modeling patform. The white paper is free, but does require visitor registration. Find it in the General white papers list.
