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eComPress - a powerful alternative to PDF for distributing tech reference docs
The online Help DITA Infocenter was built because the PDF and HTML versions of the DITA Language and Architectural Specifications were just too awkward to use for constant reference.
http://www.ditainfocenter.com
The DITA Infocenter got good reviews. Many users said that the great indexing and search in the Eclipse Help interface really makes it easy to find your way around the hundreds of DITA Specification pages.
5 Minute DITA Tutorial
This 5-minute Flash-based tutorial introduces DITA Topics, Specializations for Concept, Task, and Reference, and shows how Topics are organized with DITA Maps for publishing to multiple formats.
View the tutorial here.
For your convenience, below are the eight slides used in the animated and narrated tutorial. If you want higher-quality images to use in a DITA presentation, please contact Bob Doyle.
Using IBM Task Modeler to create DITA-based information sets
Presentation at Content Management Strategies/DITA North America, April 2008 by Kristen James Eberlein. Also presented at the 23 April 2008 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group.
Mini case: AMD implements IXIASOFT DITA CMS Framewor
Published in eContent magazine, this article describes what prompted AMD to move to a DITA strategy and implement IXIASOFT's DITA CMS Framework, an XML-based content management solution, to support their technical documentation process.
Feedable, portable, mashable, DITAble
Making Web 2.0 content portable and mashable using the DITA standards for content and collections.
Presented by Michael Priestley at Content Convergence and Integration 2008.