The DITA OT user
guide (authored by Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst) is an excellent
reference and has tons of useful information. It's one of the best references
on the DITA OT. Sometimes, however, I feel that it's sheer size is a challenge
for users, especially first-timers. We as a community need to help improve the
existing DITA OT documentation by making it more user-friendly. Both Anna and
Dick are busy and I have volunteered to reorganize the user guide and possibly
break it down into smaller ones targeted by specific audience groups.
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Three DITA Groups on New Social Network for Content Pros
Blog entry: Submitted by thecontentwrangler on Tue, 2008-03-11 19:28.
I've started a new social network for content professionals, The Content Wrangler Community. It's a place where technical, science, medical and marketing writers, editors, information architects, translators, indexers, content managers, taxonomists, and information technology professionals of all flavors can find and share information.
The network already boasts nearly 600 members (in just 2 days) who have started groups including:
DITA and Topic Maps: Bringing the Pieces Together
Event: Submitted by sylvias on Mon, 2008-03-10 21:41.
Location:
Oslo, NorwayDate:
3 Apr 2008 - 15:00 - 15:30Event Type:
ConferenceAudience and Task Analysis for DITA OT
News: Submitted by mathew.techwriter on Sun, 2008-03-09 17:21.
Self on Help
Parallel Documentation Universes
Blog entry: Submitted by tself on Sun, 2008-03-09 03:40.
Until a few weeks ago, I was unaware that there was a company employing some 200 technical writers just two kilometres from where I teach technical communication in Melbourne, Australia. Likewise, a manager at the company was unaware that my university provided post-graduate education in technical communication. We were operating in two parallel universes. The company involved operates in the "engineering technical publications" field, which seems to be quite separate (and isolated) from the "IT and corporate technical communication" field.
DITA Topic Specialization
News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Fri, 2008-03-07 22:35.
Many great resources are available to
explain the mechanics and syntax of specializing the standard DITA DTDs
for your content—for example, Michael Priestley's Specializing topic types in DITA and Eliot Kimber's DITA specialization.
However, I didn't see any that walk readers through the process of
reviewing their existing content, evaluating its fit with the various
DITA topic types, and then designing and building a DITA specialization
around the needs and structure of their content, so I wrote the IBM
developerWorks tutorial DITA topic specializatio
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