February 22, 2011, Swindon, United Kingdom – Stilo International has announced that IBM has placed an initial order with Stilo for the conversion of 30,000 pages of Adobe® FrameMaker® content to the IBM DITA standard. The order was placed following rigorous trials of the Stilo Migrate online DITA conversion service by the IBM Corporate User Technologies Team.
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DITA 1.2 Specification - Introduction
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) 1.2 specification defines a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information, as well as a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and constraining document types.
The DITA 1.2 Specification can be downloaded from:
Single-Sourcing Blog
Arbortext and the OT Part 2
It's time for the next installment of the DITA OT in the Arbortext Monster Garage.
In the first session on Arbortext and the DITA OT (last month), shop coach Mark Giffin from Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc., explained the basics of how Arbortext works with the DITA Open Toolkit.
Webinar: Using Arbortext with the DITA OT -- Part 2
In pursuit of the ultimate techCom information architecture
What is the purpose of sorting and organizing topics that goes into a map?
A user finds answers on how to use a product in various ways; by searching the internet, by using the traditional manual, in paper or electronic format etc. A certain user in a certain situation need answers and we, as technical communicators, carefully arrange many answers (topics) in a deliverable (map). The answers in the map are sorted and organized according to some principle. But, why do we sort and organize the topics we have referenced in the map?