DITA: Getting Started provides you with the knowledge needed to get your feet wet with DITA. Attend this workshop and you recieve the new Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture written by Jen Linton and Kylene Bruski. Jen Linton is the instructor.

You will learn to:

• build a business case for moving to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
• apply DITA concepts and methodology
• design and create information using a topic/task-based structured writing approach
• use XML markup with DITA elements and understand the importance of the DITA elements to information development
• understand the purpose of DITA maps and how to create them
• create relationship tables
• recognize the need for specialization in DITA
• evaluate XML editing tools and use the DITA Open Toolkit