DITA News is a new website that will offer a monthly newsletter, blog aggregation, and a press release mailing list service. It's at http://www.ditanews.com .   DITA News is modelled on two of my CMS (content management) efforts:

• the CMS-PR mailing list, which I set up for a conference on open-source content management (OSCOM) that I helped organize at Harvard in 2003,
• the CMS News website, which has been aggregating bloggers for years.  (http://www.CMS-News.org )

Members of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee have released an approved Committee Specification of the DITA 1.1 specification for consideration as an OASIS Standard. Statements of use have been provided by IBM, JustSystems (XMetaL), Flatirons Solutions, PTC-Arbortext, and Comtech Services, Inc. 

Version 1.1 of DITA is made up of four distinct units: an architectural specification, a language specification, and the DTD and Schema implementations of the language. Additional functionality in DITA 1.1:

by Joab Jackson, Government Computer News

Service-oriented architecture aims to turn computational processes into services so they can be used for missions beyond their original scope. Now, an emerging Extensible Markup Language (XML) product promises to do the same for text. Developed by IBM and later released to OASIS as an open standard, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, or DITA, is an XML Document Type Definition that can be used to mark up different sections of documents so they can easily be found later and reused in other documents.

Montreal, Canada – IXIASOFT, a leading provider in XML content management software, announced today it underwrote an Aberdeen report entitled “Publishing Technical Communications to a Multi-Channel World”. Aberdeen, a leading analyst firm, recently published this benchmark study which addresses key documentation challenges and analyses best-in-class organizations. The report also highlights organizational process and technology enablers that facilitate the delivery of high quality product documentation on-time and on budget.

The DITA Users membership organization (http://www.ditausers.org) is very happy to announce that Idiom Technologies has provided DITA Users with a WorldServer On-Demand Globalization Management System (GMS). (http://www.idiominc.com)






WorldServer On-Demand will greatly facilitate our efforts to localize the DITA Users website.