RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Updated product-filter form

["Esrig, Bruce (Bruce)" <esrig@lucent.com>]

Comments to build on JoAnn's feedback (below), which she intended for this list.

Content management (based on a database, includes map-level and topic-level linking and link management)
CMS integration (includes unique IDs, local navigation of remote links)
Workflow management (ability to set state within a workflow) <!-- omit? -->
Workflow automation (dependencies, triggers, actions)

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Could we try the list of checkboxes as a two-column table (Feature / Includes) ?

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Services area:

    OASIS member      
    Training
    Consulting
    Implementation
    Getting started
    Terminology (term management, taxonomy, ontology, indexing)
    Information architecture (structural design for collections of topics)
    DITA specialization (expertise in customizing DITA)
    Domain specialization (expertise in applying DITA within a domain)
    XSL/XSLT customization
    Ant customization
    Product extensions (FrameMaker plugins, XMetaL development, .. ??)

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JoAnn wrote:

Content management also has devisions
 Version control is a standard of CM systems 
 Workflow management is almost a standard

But breaking out version control doesn't make sense to me. No CMS lacks
version control. It's one of the core functions and we're not learning
anything about the product by asking for this. There are other
characteristics of a CMSs that are more important. Like unique Ids
generated by the system put into every file. Like a database underlying
the CMS, not a file server system. Like being able to support DITA maps
in the repository. Like link control and reporting. 

Anyway -- I recommend removing version control at the least.

JoAnn

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:39 PM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] Updated product-filter form


Hi...

I've moved the filtering forms to the main Products and Services (rather 
than being on their own pages), something like this ..

    http://dita.xml.org/products-services

I've updated the Product filtering form, see the following URL for an 
example (I'll move it to the real page once we finalize the terms) ..

    http://dita.xml.org/products

This includes all of the dita-specific fields that we discussed at the 
meeting this morning. Please look it over and let me know if you want to 
change anything (no nits too small to pick). Note that this form won't 
work properly just yet since I haven't set up the corresponding vocab 
terms yet.

For Services, here are the "features" I was thinking of using ..

    OASIS member      
    XSL development
    Ant development    
    DITA specializations
    System setup    
    Training
    Consulting
    Development
    Product augmentation (FrameMaker plugins, XMetaL development, .. ??)

Please let me know if you have any additions/corrections/objections .. ?

The Resource Directory is all set up and ready to go. I've migrated all 
of the items to individual nodes and assigned the terms as it seemed 
appropriate ..

    http://dita.xml.org/resource-directory

All of the items in the resource directory will have my name on them 
(scottp), I can reassign them to the appropriate owners as needed. (I 
assigned the "Introduction to DITA" to Jen). Let me know if you see any 
problems with this.

One issues that I've run into ..

- The "URL" fields for the Products, Services, and Resources items all 
tack on the "http://"; prefix regardless of the actual value of that 
field. So .. none of the links work since they are all 
"http://http://www.blahblah.com";. I thought about entering the URLs 
without the "http://"; .. but I'm assuming this is a bug that can be 
fixed since most people are going to enter the full URL and won't notice 
that the link doesn't work.

...scott




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