About the OASIS DITA Technical Committee and Subcommittees

The purpose of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (DITA TC) is to define and maintain the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and to promote the use of the architecture for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies.

Review the list of organizations that participate in the DITA TC.

Everyone is welcome to join the DITA TC. If you are employed by an existing OASIS member, you can go directly to the DITA TC web site and click on Join This TC. If your employer is not currently an OASIS member, you can find out how to become involved at Join OASIS.

The current work of the DITA TC is made visible through e-mail archives and a TC wiki. A consolidated zip file with all specifications, DTDs, and Schemas for DITA 1.1 is publicly available at dita1.1.zip.

The DITA TC home page also includes links to the public sites for the current subcommittees.  All subcommittees operating under the DITA TC are listed on the OASIS DITA TC home page. More information is available about -OASIS DITA TC specialization subcommittees-.

Users may be interested in the mailing lists and additional information listed on the DITA TC web site.

 

OASIS DITA Learning Content Subcommittee

This page contains information about the work of the OASIS DITA Learning and Training Content Specialization Subcommittee (at http://www.oasis-open.org).

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  • Who should join and how is that done?

     

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    Guidelines for contributing content

    • OASIS DITA Machine Industry Subcommittee

    This activity will help to galvanize the role of DITA specializations across
    industries that have common issues for hardware-related description.
    Such as: manufacturing system engineering,
    engine- and machine construction, power plant equipments, apparatus
    engineering, elevators and escalators etc.

    OASIS DITA Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee

    Creating DITA specializations for better information design and interoperability throughout the semiconductor industry.

    This subcommittee represents a community of interest within various semiconductor companies who believe that there is value in creating a DITA specialization for the industry. Not only will this enable better integration with the development of the OASIS DITA Standard, but will provide an opportunity for

    • Reduce in-house development costs
    • Reduce the work associated with integrating third party IP
    • Increase customer reach, and enable customers to find products quickly
    • Provide end-customers with more value

    OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee

    DITA Translation Subcommittee.

    JoAnn Hackos, joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com, Chair
    Gershon Joseph*, gljoseph@yahoo.com, Secretary

    Goals:

    1) Develop an effective liaison with the OASIS XLIFF technical committee and the W3C ITS working group so that the DITA TC can work together with those interested providing for the needs of the information-development community from authoring through localization to the production of final deliverables in multiple languages.

    2) Establish guidelines that promote best practices for authoring, workflow, and tools that allows information to move seamlessly from original authors and editors through translators and production specialists handling the intricacies of multiple languages and cultures.

    3) Add to the various specifications methods that will help vendors and service providers comply with DITA and translation-oriented standards.

    4) Add a DITA to XLIFF to DITA tool set to the DITA Open Source Toolkit so that content can move seamlessly along the full information development life cycle.