Re: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: DITA Technical Committee Submission

[Bruce Esrig <esrig-ia@esrig.com>]

Hi Zak,

Thank you for your interest and enthusiasm! We're making revisions to
http://dita.xml.org
that would make it easier to accommodate the contributions that you are offering to make.

Do you have a description available of the structure guidelines for content at SunGard Higher Education? The DITA Learning Content Subcommittee has been considering various variations on Course -> Lesson -> Topic, with a number of possible specializations for topic.

Also, for the wiki that you are working on, what types of pages do you have, and what is the content of each type of page? One possibility would be a page for each element, with a definition of how that element is used in your content. A second, complementary set of pages might describe types of content and the elements that are typically used to represent that content.

The article that we are working on regarding <keyword> is being revised to address both these points of view: what elements to use and what purposes to use them for.

Within http://dita.xml.org, we are establishing a new area, tentatively called Solutions (http://dita.xml.org/wiki-solutions), to accept new content from contributors who have solutions to particular problems in using the DITA language. There is also an existing area for specializations. Please take a look at the Solutions and Specializations areas. Then we can figure out where you would be most comfortable making your contributions.

Best wishes,

Bruce Esrig
Information Architect
Editoral Board Member, http://dita.xml.org

At 02:26 PM 6/24/2007, JoAnn Hackos wrote:

Hi Zak,
I was very pleased to meet you and learn how you are implementing DITA at the workshop. I'm forwarding this message to Carol Geyer and the editorial board. We are working on introducing a wiki to the dita.xml.org website. Your wiki for the DITA elements would be an excellent addition.
 
Would it be possible to have people add to the information about the DITA elements in the wiki? I'm thinking about a limited editorial group that can add information, clarify, etc. We get lots of questions about the DITA elements. In fact, our next showcase article discusses the elements associated with <keyword> so that might be an excellent start to produce a valuable tool.
 
JoAnn
 

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From: Zak Binder [mailto:Zak.Binder@sungardhe.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:01 AM
To: JoAnn Hackos
Subject: DITA Technical Committee Submission


JoAnn,

When I returned to the office after the DITA Bootcamp, I immediately put all that I learned to the test. I gave a presentation to my team on my new DITA knowledge and I've started to refine the list of DITA tags that my team will use. I have started to modify the WIKI pages I created to reflect the DITA element hierarchy for SunGard Higher Education, and I wanted to let you know that I am interested in submitting this methodology to the OASIS DITA Technical Committee and helping in any way that I can.

Please let me know if this is something that the Technical Committee would be interested in, and if so, how I should proceed.

Thank you again for a great week of training. I'll be sure to keep you up to date with our DITA success stories as the project progresses.

Zak Binder


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