Minutes for March 14, 2016 DITA Adoption FASC Meeting

(Sorry for not sending this out sooner!)

Present: Keith Schengili-Roberts, Mark Poston, Richard Simms

Absent: Don Day, Kris Eberlein 

=Taxonomy=

Mark reported on his progress in this area:

- has taken content from MindMeister and placed its contents into a specific taxonomy

  management tool called PoolParty (https://www.poolparty.biz/taxonomy-thesaurus-management/); he will now work exclusively in this tool

 - is able to create relationships between items and can export as RDF; Mark has created a script

   that converts this exported RDF to DITA Subject Scheme

- within DITAWeb the taxonomy also creates "dummy topic" at a specific URL 

  (e.g. http://dita.xml.org/taxonomy/bookmap), which in addition to being a possible search result

  page for articles containing "bookmap" in its metadata, also has space for a glossary definition

  - demonstrated how synonymous terms can be created in DITAWeb 

 - Mark is investigating suitability of a third-party program for automatically classifying content

   against the taxonomy; this will not be ready in time for DITA North America conference

=Content Conversion=

- Mark was able to demonstrate how several recent DITA Adoption white papers (all of the DITA 1.3

  ones) would appear within the draft version of the website

 - need more of the white papers, preferably in DITA format

 - aspects of DITA 1.3 can be used as well, in particular the XML Mention domain elements

- Keith talked about efforts between himself and Don at converting material from old website;

  Don  has made significant strides in pulling volumes of existing content from the

  Knowledgebase and converting them to DITA

 - need to coordinate clean-up of this content prior to migration

 - Mark also mentioned that we can start embedding keywords into the converted material

   based on the draft taxonomy

=Action Items=

Mark and Richard: 

- continue work on UI and integrating taxonomy into draft website

- send Subject Scheme to Keith and Don so that we can start tagging metadata in converted 

  content

Keith: 

- ask for the other DITA Adoption whitepapers in DITA format

- coordinate with Don on converted content

- Ask Leigh White for sample chapters in DITA format from her book

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Keith Schengili-Roberts

DITA Information Architect / DITA Specialist

 

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