Revision of Milestones from Fri, 2006-03-10 14:20

Significant milestones in the development and adoption of DITA include:

Feb 2006
OASIS Launches DITA XML.org Focus Area

August 2005
The DITA Open Toolkit publishes reference implementation support for DITA 1.0 in its DITA-OT 1.1 major release.

June 2005
DITA v1.0 Is Approved As OASIS Standard
This status signifies the highest level of ratification within the international standards consortium.

February 2005
The DITA Open Toolkit project is initiated on Sourceforge with Release 1.0, based on a donation of processing code from IBM's internal Information Developers Workbench.

April 2004
OASIS DITA Technical Committee Forms to Advance XML Standard for Authoring Reusable Content in Documents
The group brings together XML tools vendors, consultants on Information Architectures and Content Management Systems (CMS), and users of the DITA Document Type Definitions (DTD) and Schemas.

October 2002
Susan Carpenter publishes an experience report of a prototype DITA project which she drive for IBM's WebSphere Application Server -- http://xml.coverpages.org/CarpenterSIGDOC2002-DITA.pdf.

May 2002
An update of the DITA Toolkit introduces domain specialization as a major addition to the existing method of topic specialization. This release is the base upon which most of DITA's 1.0 features were formalized.

March 2001
DITA was first published as a series of developerWorks articles and a small download package of sample processing tools.


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