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.

JoAnn has suggested that this area might warrant its own specialization subcommittee, which would provide a definitive basis from which to work.  In the meantime I would be interested to know how any other writers or info architects are handling this issue and these types of information within DITA, or what ideas you have had for this, but have been afraid to implement.

[I've got the books, I've read parts of them, I haven't yet implemented any DITA/XML.]

Best regards,
Ant