Joint meeting of the Central Texas DITA User Group and the RTP DITA Users' Group on September 24, 2008. Presentations by Mike Harris, Robert Berry, and Paul Arellanes (IBM).

DITA contains ready-to-go metadata structures, but what are best practices for using those solutions in a meaningful way for your writing teams? Learn what team members should know and who to identify to take on the tasks related to taxonomy definitions. Also decide how to identify those taxonomy definitions in your content management system (CMS).

Additional resources:

• Taxonomy specialization: This specialization is called the Plugin: Thesaurus package. You can download it from the DITA Open Toolkit site on SourceForge.
• The IBM Systems Information Center uses the taxonomy specialization. Click Browse by Subjects to experiment with faceted browsing.
• "Subject Classification with DITA and SKOS". A 2005 Alphaworks article by Erik Hennum, Robert Anderson, and Colin Bird.