DITA Newsletter

DITA Newsletter 1.12
by bobdoyle
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Features in this issue

(see the web version at www.ditanewsletter.com)

DocZone Announces Lower-Cost SaaS based on Alfresco CMS

DocZone.com announced the forthcoming release of DocZone Lite™, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for creating, managing and publishing content.

The new DocZone Lite is modeled as a complete end-to-end solution, bundled with many of the key features of the original DocZone suite, including browser-based XML authoring, workflow, and single-source publishing to PDF (using the embedded TopLeaf composition engine) and HTML help. The major difference with DocZone Lite is the open source Alfresco CMS platform at its core. This allows the primary DocZone features to be offered to users for a much lower cost. DocZone Lite is bundled with an XML schema, preconfigured workflows, and basic stylesheets for single source publishing, so that it is ready to use “out of the box” with little to no additional setup required.

The base price of DocZone Lite is USD$195/month. The product will become generally available in July 2008.

The Lone-DITA Tutorial is now online at DITA Users

The Lone-DITA.com website is down temporarily as Louise Kasemeier prepares to move her site to the servers at DITA Users. In the meantime, her 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).

Suite Solutions to Lead FO Development

Suite Solutions has accepted the leadership role in supporting PDF publishing functionality provided by the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT). The FO plug-in, initially developed and supported by Idiom Technologies, currently facilitates PDF generation of DITA XML documents using the XSL-FO formatting standard.

Suite Solutions will work closely with Robert Anderson of IBM, Chief Architect of the DITA Open Toolkit, and other members of the DITA development community. .

"We believe that robust and stable PDF generation from the DITA-OT is a key enabler to the continued success and growing adoption of DITA, and ultimately makes the standard more accessible to a broader range of technical documentation publishers," said Joe Gelb, Founder and President of Suite Solutions. "Therefore it is critical that native XSL-FO capability receive ongoing and professional support to service the needs of the growing community of DITA users."

OASIS DITA Adoption Committee

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed.

Call For Participation

The OASIS DITA Adoption Technical Committee has been proposed by these members of OASIS:

JoAnn Hackos, Comtech JoAnn.Hackos@comtech-serv.com (Convenor/Chair)
Frank Miller, Comtech Frank.miller@comtech-serv.com
Michael Priestley, IBM mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
Debra Bissantz, LSI Logic debra.bissantz@lsi.com
Troy Klukewich, Oracle Troy.Klukewich@oracle.com
Bob Doyle, Associate bobdoyle@skybuilders.com
Gershon Joseph, Associate Gershon.joseph@tech-tav.com
Tony Self, Associate tself@hyperwrite.com
Kristen Eberlein, Individual keberlein@pobox.com
Rene Gedaly, Individual yourtechwriter@yahoo.com
Bryan Schnabel, Individual bryan.s.schnabel@tektronix.com
Chona Shumate, Individual Chona_Shumate@Cymer.com
Kay Whatley, Individual kay@brightpathsolutions.com

The eligibility requirements for becoming a participant in the Adoption Committee at the first meeting are that:
(a) you must be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an individual member of OASIS;
(b) the OASIS member must sign the OASIS membership agreement;
(c) you must notify the chair (JoAnn Hackos) of your intent to participate at least 15 days prior to the first meeting, which OASIS members may do here - Join the DITA Adoption Committee;
(d) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, scheduled for 28 July 2008.

More information will be posted to the DITA Adoption TC Page

DITA Open Platform 1.0

The DITA Open Platform is an open-source project to provide the DITA community with a free and easy-to-deploy DITA oriented production platform. It is targeted at small companies or teams that do not need a complete CMS solution.

The key deliverable of the 1.0 milestone is the DITA-OP Editor, an Eclipse-based set of plugins featuring:

The complete DITA architecture and language specification available through the Eclipse help system
A DITA project which enables DITA files validation (pure XML validation and hyperlink references validation) and problem markers
Wizards and templates to create new DITA files (topics, concepts, references, tasks, maps, bookmaps and processing profiles)
A processing profile (ditaval) form editor
A topic editor which will leverage the power of the Eclipse XML editor (content assist, templates, as-you-type validation, formatting) with a dedicated preview page
A launch configuration dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit which enables setting up the toolkit scripts, saving your configuration for later reuse or sharing and even adding automatic build to your DITA project.

Downloads are available here.

Eight Slides Explain DITA Topics, Maps, Specialization

Download a zipped folder with eight explanatory slides that you can use to educate your tech pubs group about DITA.

Feel free to use these in your own presentations on DITA. They combine ideas from some of the best slides in use over the past few years by DITA evangelists.

Or listen to the 5-minute Flash tutorial that uses animated versions of these slides to describe the core functionality of DITA.

Your D.Q. Helps Make the Business Case for DITA

The DITA Quotient estimates the value of DITA for your organization.

Simply answer ten yes/no questions about content management, structure, reuse, single-sourcing, localization, markup, conditional processing, modularity, task-orientation, minimalism, and standards.

You get a printable profile of your D.Q., which you can use as a checklist of questions about your structured content strategy and to compare yourself to industry averages.

DITA Consultants are using the D.Q., along with an estimate of the DITA Maturity Model level, to analyze a client's business case for DITA.

Get your DITA Quotient now (fill out an anonymous online form - no registration required).

DITA Tools from A to Z

DITA News has now posted the full copy of the STC Intercom special DITA issue cover story, with its extensive feature tables.

Here is the introduction to the story:

DITA's promise of topic-based structured authoring is not merely better documentation. lt is the creation of mission-critical information for your organization, written with a deep understanding of your most important audiences, that can be repurposed to multiple delivery channels and localized for multilingual global markets.

Download your copy here.

DITA Maturity Model Contest

The DITA Maturity Model defines the industry's first graduated, step-by-step methodology for implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA).

The DITA Maturity Model Contest is looking for your contributions to the discussion on the DITA.XML.org knowlegebase and are offering an 8GB Apple iPod Touch and two tickets to DocTrain East as prizes

Just add a comment to one of the DMM Community pages between 1 June and 31 August 2008 and you have a chance to win.

DITA Tools Survey

The first Annual Survey of DITA Tools was recently distributed to six DITA communities.

the main community mailing list dita-users@yahoo.com (1900 subscribers),
the official OASIS community at DITA.XML.org (1300 members),
the DITA News/DITA Users community (600 members),
the STC (13,000 members),
the TECHWR-L mailing list (2500 subscribers),
the Content Wrangler Community (a social network with 1600 members)

The survey asks for a profile of the user, and then collects usage statistics and critical comments on more than three dozen DITA-related tools.

Complete the DITA Tools Survey here.

DITA Users now offers four membership packages

Since April 2007, the DITA Users international membership organization has provided basic online DITA editing and a personal workspace folder for free to hundreds of tech writers (now over 650) around the world getting started with DITA.

DITA Users is NOT a social network (although you can locate other members easily with our private members directory)), it is a productivity tool. It is also not a production environment, it is a learning tool.

A $150 membership includes the leading book on DITA and a desktop DITA Editor to complement the web-based DITA Storm editor.

A full $100 membership includes the choice of the leading book on DITA or a desktop DITA Editor to complement the web-based DITA Storm editor.

The book (a $50 value) is JoAnn Hackos' Introduction to DITA - either the original edition by Kylene Bruski and Jennifer Linton or the new Arbortext Edition.

The desktop editor is the $48 Academic Edition of the <oXygen/> XML Editor, now at version 9 with full DITA support.

Desktop editors communicate with web servers via FTP or WebDAV (distributed authoring and versioning). DITA Users can now WebDAV-enable individual members' workspace folders.

Most DITA authoring tools offer WebDAV, some as a premium only available in their Enterprise Editions (for example, Syntext Serna and XMLmind).

DITA Users still offers a basic $50 membership without the book or desktop editor. Benefits include a WebDAV-enabled folder and discounts on major DITA conferences.

Paid memberships are renewable for $50/year. Free memberships include just one IBM DITA docset.

Anyone with a WebDAV-enabled DITA authoring tool can use it on their DITA Users document sets. These include two docsets from IBM and the docset from Comtech Services in the Introduction to DITA book. They can also create their own projects.

Practically speaking, anyone already invested in an advanced DITA authoring tool may be beyond the need for the "DITA from A to B" learning offered by DITA Users. But the new access method may make online training valuable for small tech pub groups who can now use their familiar tools (like Arbortext Editor or XMetaL Author) on the DITA Users website, as well as use innovative tools like the web-based DITA Storm, while their teams get started with DITA.

In any case, DITA Users member fees underwrite our network of DITA support websites, including this newsletter. So please consider joining today.

About DITA Newsletter

DITA Newsletter is published by DITA News, one of a network of websites in support of DITA. It is available online at www.ditanewsletter.com.

Each of our websites is optimized for some community-oriented function.

DITA Users - helping members get started with topic-based authoring using a web-based editor (DITA Storm), the Open Toolkit on the server, a personal workspace folder on the web with three starter DITA docsets, and a private member directory to locate other DITA Users.
ditausers.org

DITA Infocenter - the DITA architectural and language specifications, and the Open Toolkit User Guide, online in an Eclipse Help format.
ditainfocenter.com

DITA News - a blog aggregator, a mailing list, and this newsletter on DITA.
ditanews.com

DITA Blog - a group blog for DITA information developers (based on WordPress).
ditablog.com

DITA Wiki - over 600 pages of resources in a format that encourages comments and discussions (based on MediaWiki).
ditawiki.org

Please consider joining DITA Users today. Four membership packages are available, $150, $100, $50, and free

Your membership fee supports our network of websites, including this newsletter. Discounts on DITA conferences and workshops more than offset your annual membership fee

http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/

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DITA Newsletter 1.11
by bobdoyle
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Features in this issue

(see the web version at www.ditanewsletter.com)

DITA Conferences - Discounts and Free Tickets

DITA Users is holding a lottery for free tickets to major conferences featuring DITA in June, including:

the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies conference June 18-20 in San Francisco, CA
the X-Pubs conference June 22-24 in London, England
the new DocTrain Life Sciences conference June 23-26 in Indianapolis, Indiana

These free tickets are worth from 384 British Pounds to $999 and are an exclusive benefit for paying members of DITA Users. See Why Join DITA Users.

All members need to enter the drawing is to send an email to editor@cmsreview.com saying you will attend the conference if you win a free ticket. We don't want these valuable prizes to go to someone who will not be able to use them.

So join DITA Users today and include your request to be in the drawing for one or more of these conferences in the comments section of your order. If you are already a member, send an email request to editor@cmsreview.com.

Don't forget that members of DITA Users get discounts to most major conferences that more than offset their annual membership dues. That includes the three conferences above.

SiberLogic introduces SiberSafe Styler

SiberLogic SiberSafe Styler leverages Microsoft Word's XML capabilities and familiar document formatting interface (just use Word's familiar formatting user interface to map Word styles onto XML elements).

Traditional transformation approaches -- such as XSLT scripts -- that ensure a specific look and feel to your published documentation are often difficult and costly to develop, and equally expensive to maintain. SiberSafe Styler can support both your proprietary DTD (schemas) and the standard ones, including DITA, Docbook, and S1000D.

Vasont adds MS Word-based editing

Vasont Systems integration of In-vision Research Xpress Author combines structured authoring with a content management system.

Vasont (like Quark and others mentioned in earlier Newsletters) announced a partnership with In.vision Research. They have completed the integration between the Vasont CMS and Xpress Author, allowing writers to edit XML content in MSWord and save it back to the Vasont CMS. This is great for users who are used to working in MSWord and are frightened of XML.

Microsoft Word users can now work in an XML environment utilizing the Vasont content management system and Xpress Author to update their technical documentation, training materials, knowledge bases and other documentation for publication. Writers simply work in Microsoft Word while accessing and updating the Vasont repository through a simple menu option.

OASIS DITA Adoption Committee

OASIS is forming a DITA Adoption Committee under the direction of JoAnn Hackos to promote DITA.

It will include the following activites:

Oversee the DITA XML.org Focus Area
Review and ensure accuracy of DITA references in commonly used resources such as Wikipedia
Host educational, vendor-neutral webinars
Organize vendor-neutral workshops and tracks at OASIS events and other conferences
Produce OASIS-branded primers, white papers, position papers, slide presentations, datasheets, and other collateral
Develop best practice guidelines
Establish liaisons with other organizations who may assist in building awareness or and promoting DITA in a variety of user communities
Assist in coordinating promotional efforts of members, leveraging activities wherever beneficial
Assist in coordinating press and analyst relations such as briefings, releases, and announcements
Encourage and coordinate volunteer efforts to translate the DITA specification and other committee documents into other languages
Interface with other TCs to define how DITA can be best integrated with other standards to address specific scenarios
Stage interoperability and/or proof-of-concept demonstrations at industry conferences
Other projects aimed at increasing adoption as identified by Committee members

Your D.Q. Helps Make the Business Case for DITA)

The DITA Quotient estimates the value of DITA for your organization.

You get a printable profile of your D.Q., which you can use as a checklist of questions about your structured content strategy and to compare yourself to industry averages. DITA Consultants are using the D.Q., along with an estimate of the DITA Maturity Model level, to analyze a client's business case for DITA.

Get your DITA Quotient now (fill out an anonymous online form - no registration required).

DITA Tools from A to Z

DITA News has now posted the full copy of the STC Intercom special DITA issue cover story, with its extensive feature tables.

Here is introduction to the story:

Download your copy here.

DITA Maturity Model Contest

The DITA Maturity Model defines the industry's first graduated, step-by-step methodology for implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA).

Just add a comment to one of the DMM Community pages between 1 June and 31 August 2008 and you have a chance to win.

DITA Tools Survey

The first Annual Survey of DITA Tools was recently distributed to six DITA communities.

the main community mailing list dita-users@yahoo.com (1900 subscribers),
the official OASIS community at DITA.XML.org (1300 members),
the DITA News/DITA Users community (600 members),
the STC (13,000 members),
the TECHWR-L mailing list (2500 subscribers),
the Content Wrangler Community (a social network with 1600 members)

The survey asks for a profile of the user, and then collects usage statistics and critical comments on more than three dozen DITA-related tools.

Complete the DITA Tools Survey here.

With our latest new member from Vietnam, DITA Users is now in 35 Countries with 625 members

DITA Users is NOT a social network (although you can locate other members easily), it is a productivity tool.

A full $100/year membership includes the choice of the leading book on DITA or a desktop DITA Editor to complement the web-based DITA Storm editor.

The book (a $50 value) is JoAnn Hackos' Introduction to DITA - either the original edition by Kylene Bruski and Jennifer Linton or the new Arbortext Edition.

The desktop editor is the $48 Academic Edition of the <oXygen/> XML Editor, now at version 9 with full DITA support.

Desktop editors communicate with web servers via FTP or WebDAV (distributed authoring and versioning). DITA Users can now WebDAV-enable individual members' workspace folders.

Most DITA authoring tools offer WebDAV, some as a premium only available in their Enterprise Editions (for example, Syntext Serna and XMLmind).

DITA Users still offers a $50 discount membership without the book or desktop editor. Benefits include a WebDAV-enabled folder and discounts on major DITA conferences.

In any case, DITA Users member fees underwrite our network of DITA support websites, including this newsletter. So please consider joining today.

Upcoming DITA Events

June 9-13, 2008

Adobe FrameMaker 8: DITA Publishing Boot Camp

Bright Path Solutions will offer a special DITA-oriented version of their FrameMaker training class.

More information

June 18-20, 2008

The Gilbane Conference - San Francisco

Content management is more important than ever. But even as organizations are working to get their hands around rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content, new web technologies are providing opportunities to create, manage, share, and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper, and often quicker.

Topics to be covered in-depth include:

Web Content Management (WCM)
Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies
Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs
"Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing
Content Globalization & Localization
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Enterprise Rights Management (ERM)
Publishing Best Practices
XML Content Strategies

Join DITA Users and enter a drawing for a free ticket ($995 value) to the Gilbane Conference. If you are already a member, don't forget to ask for your DITA Users discount to this conference when you register.

Registration

June 22-24, 2008

X-Pubs - Component Content Management, DITA, S1000D

How can XML and component based content systems fundamentally change how our content consumers see and experience information?

Presentations on:

Web 2.0 / multimedia delivery
Task-based Information Architecture
Innovative training and eLearning delivery
Innovations in presentation and collaboration models
Getting the most out of user-driven content
Effective workflow design

Who should come?

X-Pubs 2008 is for Team Leaders, Technical Communicators, Product Managers, Learning Content professionals, and so on who are looking to improve the way content is reused and communicated inside and outside their organisation.

Join DITA Users and enter a drawing for a free ticket (380BP value) to X-Pubs 2008. If you are already a member, don't forget to ask for your DITA Users discount to this conference when you register.

Registration

About DITA Newsletter

DITA Newsletter is published by DITA News, one of a network of websites in support of DITA. It is available online at www.ditanewsletter.com.

Each of our websites is optimized for some community-oriented function.

DITA Infocenter - the DITA architectural and language specifications, and the Open Toolkit User Guide, in an Eclipse Help format.
ditainfocenter.com

DITA News - a blog aggregator, a mailing list, and this newsletter on DITA.
ditanews.com

DITA Blog - a group blog for DITA information developers (based on WordPress).
ditablog.com

DITA Wiki - over 600 pages of resources in a format that encourages comments and discussions (based on MediaWiki).
ditawiki.org

Please consider joining DITA Users today. Membership is $100USD/year and includes your choice of either: Introduction to DITA by JoAnn Hackos or an Academic License to the <oXygen/> XML Editor, with WebDAV access to your workspace folder on DITA Users.

Your membership fee supports our network of websites, including this newsletter. Discounts on DITA conferences and workshops more than offset your annual membership fee

http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/

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DITA Newsletter 1.10
by bobdoyle
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Features in this issue

(see the web version at www.ditanewsletter.com)

DITA Version Compatibility

Following a suggestion by Kay Whatley, DITA News has begun to collect the current DITA version compatibility for all DITA-related tools.

DITA vendors have been contacted and a preliminary table reports which tools are DITA 1.0 compatible, which 1.1 (or both 1.0 and 1.1), etc.

The URL for the Version Compatibility Table is www.ditanews.com/tools/compatibility/

See the Tools A-Z section of DITA News for links to the tool vendors.

DITA Conferences - Discounts and Free Tickets

DITA Users will be holding a lottery for free tickets to major conferences featuring DITA this spring, including:

the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies conference June 18-20 in San Francisco, CA
the X-Pubs conference June 22-24 in London, England
the new DocTrain Life Sciences conference June 23-26 in Indianapolis, Indiana

These free tickets are worth from $999 to $1299 and are an exclusive benefit for paying members of DITA Users. See Why Join DITA Users.

Don't forget that members of DITA Users get discounts to most major conferences that more than offset their annual membership dues. That includes the three conferences above.

DITA Storm Desktop Editor

Inmedius will be showing DITA Storm Desktop at DocTrain West 2008. DITA Storm Desktop is a standalone XML editing solution to create and publish DITA documents in a self-contained environment on a single workstation. Installed locally on the end user’s computer, files are accessed, edited, saved and published from local or network drives, regardless of Internet connectivity. With DITA Storm's WYSIWYG editing capabilities, authors with little or no DITA or XML knowledge can create valid, structured content.

Webworks ePublisher Platform 9.3 integrates Open Toolkit

ePublisher 9.3 supports and builds on the standards-based architecture of the DITA Open Tool Kit. ePublisher 9.3 gives you the capability to add additional formatting features to your DITA content that aren't available using the OT. ePublisher is not dependent on any particular version of the OT, and it works with any DITA XML editor.

ePublisher 9.3’s ability to merge information authored in DITA-XML, Adobe FrameMaker, or MS-Word makes the transition to DITA-XML more cost-effective as a user can easily test and prototype DITA using a subset of their documentation while still developing quality output for customers.

DITA Open Toolkit 1.4.2

Robert Anderson reports that version 1.4.2 of the DITA Open Toolkit is now available from the DITA-OT project page at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/

Based on community input, the 1.4.2 package is now available in three versions:

1. The "Minimal" package contains only the core processing code.
2. The "Standard" package contains the core processing code, plus demos, documentation, and samples.
3. The "Full easy install" package contains the standard package plus external libraries useful for many toolkit processes (such as Xalan and ANT), as well as a batch file to setup a local build environment. In DITA-OT 1.4.1 this was known as the full version; in release 1.5 this package will complete the transition to the name "easy install".

A new section of the DITA.XML.org Knowledgebase will track news on the DITA Open Toolkit

What's Your D.Q.? (Make the Business Case for DITA)

Your DITA Quotient estimates the value of DITA for your organization.

Get your DITA Quotient now (fill out an anonymous online form - no registration required).

DITA Tools Survey

The first Annual Survey of DITA Tools will be distributed to six DITA communities this week.

the main community mailing list dita-users@yahoo.com (1900 subscribers),
the official OASIS community at DITA.XML.org (1300 members),
the DITA News/DITA Users community (600 members),
the STC (13,000 members),
the TECHWR-L mailing list (2500 subscribers),
the Content Wrangler Community (a social network with 1600 members)

The survey will ask for a profile of the user, and then collect usage statistics and critical comments on more than three dozen DITA-related tools.

<oXygen/> 9.2 adds Author version

<oXygen/> now offers a simplified version of the tool suited for authoring.

There are people that are not developers or there are times when you are not interested in the development features of <oXygen/> and you want just to do XML editing. <oXygen/> Author removes the development features offering a more simple interface for XML editing.

A DITA maps manager allows viewing and editing DITA map files. It also acts as a project manager allowing you to easily open different topics/concepts for editing.

<oXygen/> Author is available also as a separate product, both as a standalone application and as an Eclipse plugin.

The DITA Open Toolkit was updated in the <oXygen/> XML editor DITA authoring framework to the latest version 1.4.1.

Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution

Quark announced at the recent AIIM/On Demand conference that they are "Revolutionizing Publishing. Again" with the introduction of their Dynamic Publishing Solution.

The DPS is an integration of authoring, managing, and publishing tools that will likely cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and put Quark in competition with companies that offer automated publishing solutions. Their focus will not be tech docs, but high fidelity design/layout where dynamic content is required.

The main components are their Quark Publishing System (QPS) and QuarkXPress Server, but the surprise move is the integration of your choice of XML editor, including In.vision Research Xpress Author for Microsoft Word. Quark will sell Xpress Author directly. They hope to convert some of the 300 million Word users into structured XML content creators.

Because Xpress Author (note the similar but not identical name to QuarkXPress) ships preconfigured with DITA and other XML standards, the DPS will provide high-fidelity print and multi-channel outputs from component DITA topics.

The Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution will accept content created in many tools, including their desktop publishing flagship QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk, as well as competitors Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy, and basically any XML editor/author tool.

Quark will partner with Alfresco to integrate an open-source enterprise content management system in the DPS.

DITA Tools from A to Z

DITA News is now offering a limited version of the article "DITA Tools from A to Z" from the special DITA issue of STC Intercom Magazine.

Paying members of DITA Users and STC can get the full copy of the article, with its extensive feature tables.

Download your copy here.

Hidden Cost of DITA

In the same special DITA issue of STC Intercom, XML Strategist Sarah O'Keefe warns that DITA may not be the best solution for companies that already structure their content - if their content model cannot be easily transformed to match the DITA content model.

Download your copy here.

DITA Maturity Model Q&A

The DITA Maturity Model defines the industry's first graduated, step-by-step methodology for implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Incremental adoption is one of DITA's most attractive features. Users can start quickly and easily with DITA using a subset of its capabilities, then add investment over time as their content strategy evolves and expands to cover more requirements and content areas.

The authors of the DITA Maturity Model -- Michael Priestley, lead DITA architect for IBM and co-editor of OASIS/DITA 1.0 and Amber Swope, principal consultant in Content Lifecycle Solutions at JustSystems - discuss the genesis of DITA, the stages and the impact of using the DITA Maturity Model, and the path to universal knowledge management.

Read the Q&A here.

With a new member from Italy, DITA Users is now in 34 Countries