White paper from the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Authored by Kara Warburton, IBM. Published 15 October 2009.

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White paper from the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Authored by Joe Gelb, Suite Solutions. Published 21 September 2009. Note that the offical version of this document is the PDF file that is located in the document repository for the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee.

Feature article produced by the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Authored by Sowmya Kannan, Sun Microsystems. Published 21 September 2009. Note that the offical version of this document is the PDF file that is located in the document repository for the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Also note that the DITA source for this article and its code examples is available in a ZIP file that you can download from the bottom of this page.

This white paper is the first in the DITA Metrics series. The series will discuss cost metrics, reuse metrics, and a reuse strategy. This paper is the first in the DITA Metrics series. It describes one model for calculating the cost of a DITA project. After doing some content analysis on your own documentation set, you can customize this cost model to suit your documentation project needs. In the end, you should be able to speak the financial language of managers and prove to them in dollar signs the value of moving to DITA.

Between 2005-2007 I wrote a "touching DITA" series of introductory articles about aspects of DITA use for the ISTC Communicator magazine.  I attach the articles here in case they are of value to anyone in the DITA community. (Note that although much is still the same now, the DITA, the Open Toolkit, and Task Modeler have moved on a bit since the articles were published!)

1. ISTC Communicator Summer 2005 - DITA introduction.pdf