The Wisdom of Crowds Meets the Wisdom of Authors: How XML Enables the Semantic Web

By my colleague, Paul Wlodarczyk the VP of Solutions Consulting for JustSystems: 

DITA Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 12, July, 2008

Features in this issue

(see the web version at www.ditanewsletter.com)

• DocZone Lite
• Lone-DITA Tutorial Is Back
• DITA FO Plug-in Support
• DITA Adoption Committee and Member Section
• DITA Open Platform
• DITA Topics Tutorial Slides
• DITA Tools from A to Z

Since April 2007, the DITA Users international membership organization has provided basic online DITA editing and a personal workspace folder for free to hundreds of tech writers (now over 660) around the world getting started with DITA.

DITA Users is NOT a social network (although you can locate other members easily with our private members directory), it is a productivity tool. It is also not a production environment, it is a learning tool.

Master Data Management Takes on Content

In many ways, content is beginning to look a lot like data, especially with the rise of XML and component-based authoring and publishing. XML transforms content from flat and monolithic to multidimensional, granular and richly defined — the sort of granular definition that used to be reserved for the information sitting between columns and rows in a database.

The Lone-DITA Tutorial is back online at DITA Users.

The Lone-DITA.com website is down temporarily as the Lone-DITA team prepares to move it to servers at DITA Users. In the meantime, the popular tutorial PDF with supporting files in a zipped folder can now be downloaded from DITA Users.

Getting Started with DITA Tutorial from Lone-DITA (PDF).

Supporting files for DITA Tutorial from Lone-DITA (Zip file).