DITA-OT 1.4 was released August 12, 2007. It is a major release which includes full support for the OASIS DITA 1.1 standard.
The 1.4 release was followed by release 1.4.1; release notes for that are available here: DITA-OT 1.4.1 Release
Release notes for DITA-OT 1.4 are available in the original release annoucement here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/6950
DITA-OT 1.4.1 was released November 28, 2007. Version 1.4.1 is a maintenance release which includes primarily bug fixes, along with a few small patches and enhancements.
The 1.4.1 release was followed by a release 1.4.2; release notes for that are available here: DITA-OT 1.4.2 Release.
Release NotesThe original release announcement is available here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/8115
Master Data Management Takes on Content
by Jake Sorofman
In many ways, content is beginning to look a lot like data, especially with the rise of XML and component-based authoring and publishing. XML transforms content from flat and monolithic to multidimensional, granular and richly defined — the sort of granular definition that used to be reserved for the information sitting between columns and rows in a database.
The Lone-DITA Tutorial is back online at DITA Users.
The Lone-DITA.com website is down temporarily as the Lone-DITA team prepares to move it to servers at DITA Users. In the meantime, the popular tutorial PDF with supporting files in a zipped folder can now be downloaded from DITA Users.
Getting Started with DITA Tutorial from Lone-DITA (PDF).
Supporting files for DITA Tutorial from Lone-DITA (Zip file).
Creating multilingual manuals as PDF and OnlineHelp with a suite of tools in one package: Adobe FrameMaker 8, WebWorks ePublisher Standard or Enterprise, 'SYSTEC TOOLBOX for® FrameMaker 8 - DITA-Services' incl. multilingual templates for FrameMaker 8 and WebWorks ePublisher.
The DITA Services are plugins as add-on of the TOOLBOX for® FrameMaker 8 (available in English or German):
