DITA maps are documents that collect and organize references to DITA topics to indicate the relationships among the topics. They can be used to identify the topics you want to include in a deliverable, and to create tables of contents and related links for the information.

Maps can organize topics into hierarchies, tables, and groups, and also have special elements for referencing other maps. You can use multiple maps to pull different deliverables out of the same set of topics, and to separate the concerns of managing deliverables and architecting information from the concerns of topic authoring.

The architectural specification describes DITA maps and relationship tables at

• http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/dita_spec_23_maps.html.