Charter

The purpose of the RTP DITA Users' Group is to facilitate communication and the sharing of knowledge between DITA users in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of North Carolina.

Meetings

We meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 5:30-6:30 PM. Currently our meetings are held at the following location:

Systems Documentation, Inc
1005 Slater Road, Suite 220
Durham, NC 27703.

Directions to Systems Documentation, Inc.

Communications

We have a Yahoo! Groups mailing list. To join, go to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rtp-dita/
For more information about the group, you also can contact keberlein@pobox.com.

Upcoming events

May 27: IDCMS BluePrint: IBM's Information Development Content Management Strategy

Presenter: Mike Iantosca, IBM

"IBM's long standing commitment to our clients is to deliver the right content to the right person at the right time and in the right place. To that end, IBM has embarked on a multi-year development initiative to create an End-to-End Life Cycle Management system. The system, known internally as IDCMS Blue, is intended to integrate and automate IBM's Information Development processes and tools. This second generation system is based on a DITA-enabled FileNet P8 solution. IDCMS Blue will evolve to provide a complete ecosystem using DITA as the common currency and by applying robust workflow and metadata management that leverages the combined power of DITA and FileNet P8. The solution will encompass the full product life cycle beginning with a product's plan for the customer's total information experience and extending through design, authoring, quality management, translation, and distribution. The goal of the system is to not simply stop at establishing centralized content sharing across IBM's far flung enterprise, but achieve a high level of integration between processes, best practices and tools as well as enable automated interchange with other requestors and providers that are both upstream and downstream to the Information Development process. In this presentation, we describe our vision for this solution."

Past events

April 22: The Xquery language and the DITA Open Toolkit
Presenter: Tom Ed White, Tekelec

March 25: Producing PDFs using Bookmap
Presenter: Julio Vazquez, Systems Documentation, Inc.

January 28, 2009: IBM DITA Wiki: Growing DITA Across the Enterprise
Presenter: Don Day, IBM User Technologies; Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee; Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions. Jointly sponsored with the Central TX DITA User Group.

October 22: Crossing Organizational Boundaries with DITA
Presenter: Colleen Smith, Teradata Corporation, Content Management Information Architect

September 24: DITA, Metada, and Taxonomy
Presenters: Robert Berry, Mike Harris, and Paul Arellanes (IBM). Jointly sponsored with the Central TX DITA User Group.

August 27: DITA 1.2: Understanding the upcoming release
Presenter: Robert D. Anderson, IBM. Chief Architect of the DITA Open Toolkit.

July 23: Managing Content and Producing Output with the Eclipse IDE
Presenter: Tom Ed White, Tekelec

June 25, 2008: The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization
Presenter: Carolyn Inkster, IBM

May 28, 2008: Brushing your teeth with DITA: Leveraging relationships to improve usability
Presenter: Shane Taylor, Computer Task Group

April 23, 2008: Using IBM Task Modeler to Create DITA-based Information Sets
Presenter: Kristen James Eberlein, Systems Documentation, Inc.

March 26, 2008: Round table discussion on DITA maps and relationship tables

February 27, 2008: Organizational meeting

January 23, 2008: Organizational meeting