Scriptorium has recently teamed up with JustSystems in a couple of DITA related webinars: "An Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit" followed by: "Key Elements on Customizing and Troubleshooting Output". These are part of the "Best Practices for Structured Authoring and Publishing" series.

Peter Hagopian writes on InformationWeek, "You may have heard of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standards for content creation, and it's just as likely that your eyes glazed over as the DITA faithful sing its praises. It's easy to get down into the weeds quickly in a discussion of DITA, but at its core, it's an XML-based method for authoring content in reusable modules, organized by topic.

A Case Study in DITA for Globalization & Localization

By Jennifer Linton, CaridianBCT

Ever wonder how converting to a DITA/XML content management system would play out in real life? What if we added globalization? What if it showed nearly $100,000 savings for the first two deliverables (in 9 languages)?