I'm looking at how we develop DITA to handle the content of our research reports, which will need some topic specializations, so it's not a rush job.  In the meantime my colleague, our knowledge manager, is developing a document metadata architecture that will make our legacy documents searchable.

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Hi everyone,

I originally posted this as a reply to another post, but I doubt anyone would find it there, so I'm setting up this new one, hoping to get a solution and, hopefully, providing it to others who would run into the same issue.

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I work within a research and development department and we are looking at DITA/XML for reusing our information.  However, I don't feel that 'concept, task, and reference' are wide enough in scope to accomodate sections of information that regularly appear in all research reports (not just ours), such as: method, methodology, results, findings, recommendations, and others.

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Special thanks to all of the development partners and members of the Adobe Solutions Network contributing to the development of the FrameMaker 7.2  Application Packs for DITA. Backspace Ink, Bright Path Solutions, Document Jones, Group Wellesley, Integrated Technologies, Leximation, Promptt, Publishing Smarter, Scriptorium Publishing, Text Structure Consulting, and Silicon Publishing created the Application Pack for DITA—all overseen and coordinated by Silicon Publishing. Independent consultants Tassos Anastasiou, Tobias Reif, and Andrea Sharp also contributed their technical publishing knowledge and skills to developing the new FrameMaker Application Packs.

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Read "Do We Really Need All that Glue?" then share your perspective with author, JoAnn Hackos, and others by posting to this forum.

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