Last week at the WritersUA Conference in Portland, I chaired a "Developing Help with DITA" forum alongside Alan Houser, Matthew Ellison and Scott Prentice (all on the DITA Help Sub Committee). There was a lot of interest from delegates (the majority of whom are Help authors) in using DITA, although most are only 'testing the water'.

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EContent Magazine, Column April 2008. 

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) XML structured publishing solutions, like content management systems in general, run the gamut in cost from free to millions of dollars for some of the largest implementations in big corporations, such as Adobe, Autodesk, BMC, EMC, IBM, Nokia, Salesforce.com, and Sybase.

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We have worked with a consult to select a group of CMS vendors, met with the vendors, and finally selected a CMS supplier. We decided on dita early on, but now the hard part begins.

We currently use unstructured Frame and output our technical documents to PDF. We're moving from frame to xmetal to get a clean break to the past. One of the questions that I have is: What kind of training do we need and in what order?

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This is the first post. I think it's only appropriate that I tell you about us and what we believe. (That way everything is completely up front.)  I'm Liz Fraley from Single-Sourcing Solutions.

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There's a pilot project out of Lotus using DITA for dynamic content publishing, and you can also see the DITA source for any of the content in the project. You can search DITA source and return maps and topics. You can turn a search result list into a map that you can publish as HTML or PDF, or you can use a shopping cart mode to select content from multiple searches and create a more custom map for publishing to PDF or HTML.

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