OASIS Symposium 2007 - eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction and Future

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OASIS Symposium 2007 - eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction and Future

Event: Submitted by TBosse on Tue, 2007-02-13 23:10.

Location:

Marriot Mission Valley, San Diego, California, United States

Date:

15 Apr 2007 - 04:30 - 17 Apr 2007 - 13:00

Event Type:

Conference

This year's OASIS Symposium 2007 will feature several presentations focusing on DITA including:

Publishing DITA with DocBook XSL
DocTape: A Document Standards Interoperability Framework for DocBook, DITA, ODF and more!
eB Doc Standard (DITA) Panel

Monday, 16 April

Publishing DITA with DocBook XSL
Presenter(s): Robert Stayton, Principal Consultant, Sagehill Enterprises

Combining the strengths of DITA authoring with DocBook's mature publishing tools is a fast track to production-quality output for DITA content. This session describes the reasons for taking this approach and the best methods for deploying it.

DocTape: A Document Standards Interoperability Framework for DocBook, DITA, ODF and more!
Presenter(s): Scott Hudson, Senior Consultant, Flatirons Solutions

An interoperability strategy is critical to allow the use of content from multiple standards and sources. This presentation will describe an approach to defining a Doc Standards Interoperability Framework, supporting DocBook, DITA and ODF.

Tuesday, 17 April

eB Doc Standard (DITA) Panel
Presenter(s): Mary McRae, Manager of Technical Committee Administration, OASIS; JoAnn Hackos, President, Comtech Services Inc.; Chip Gettinger, Astoria Software; and Bob Beims, Freescale

The DITA standard is gaining acceptance worldwide for publishing technical content to the Web and other media. A number of industries, including medical devices and semi-conductor, have created industry-centered OASIS subcommittees to promote common DITA specializations. This panel will talk about the latest on this topic.