Members of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee have formed a new "DITA for Technical Standards Subcommittee" to enhance DITA for use with standards development and publishing. This would enable DITA to be used as 'A Standard for Standards'. The purpose of this Subcommittee is to further the capabilities of the OASIS DITA standards to define, maintain, and promote the use of DITA for the creation, maintenance, and support of technical standards specifications.

(pressebox) Gütersloh, 14.10.2008 - At the tcworld conference 2008, empolis will provide insight into the newest empolis:Content Lifecycle Suite (e:CLS) version 3.4. The component content management system was expanded considerably in the area of rendition support and authentication.

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Scriptorium has recently teamed up with JustSystems in a couple of DITA related webinars: "An Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit" followed by: "Key Elements on Customizing and Troubleshooting Output". These are part of the "Best Practices for Structured Authoring and Publishing" series.

Peter Hagopian writes on InformationWeek, "You may have heard of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standards for content creation, and it's just as likely that your eyes glazed over as the DITA faithful sing its praises. It's easy to get down into the weeds quickly in a discussion of DITA, but at its core, it's an XML-based method for authoring content in reusable modules, organized by topic.