On June 10, 2010, instinctools GmbH organized a webinar on the topic “DITA Specialization: Tools for Visual Support”. 

In this webinar, Alexej Spas talked about how the otherwise complicated activity of DITA specialization can be handled comfortably in a visual way. The benefits of having infrastructure support for DITA specialization in terms of model validation, import, export and integration with version control and documentation environment were also talked about. The webinar was structured as follows:

• Traditional approach to doing DITA Specializations
• Main challenges in doing DITA Specializations
• Traditional vs. Visual Specialization/Benefits of visual over traditional Specializations
• Demo by doing an example Specialization using visual tools

For those who had missed the webinar or those who want to go through it again, we have uploaded the webinar to DITAworks blog.