Revision of Milestones from Fri, 2006-03-10 14:22

Significant milestones in the development and adoption of DITA include:

Feb 2006
OASIS Launches DITA XML.org Focus Area.

August 2005
DITA Open Toolkit 1.1 Is Released.
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
DITA Open Toolkit Project Is Initiated on Sourceforge.
The project is based on a donation of processing code from IBM's internal Information Developers Workbench.

April 2004
OASIS DITA Technical Committee Forms.
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
IBM Publishes Report of Prototype DITA Project.
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
DITA Toolkit Introduces Domain Specialization.
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 are formalized.

March 2001
IBM Makes DITA Publicly Available.
DITA is introduced as a series of developerWorks articles and a small download package of sample processing tools.


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