I think Don was talking about the Summit. Michael and I published in the STC journal earlier this year. A problem there is the academic paywall. The journal does not have an option for giving papers open access. We can explore options during our first SC meeting of 2017.
Carlos
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Mark Giffin <> wrote:
I agree that the template-based specialization can be taken out of
the LWDITA committee note we are working on. I'd be interested in
helping with submitting a paper to STC. Is that the journal, Don? Or
the STC Summit event?
Mark Giffin
On 12/15/2016 7:06 AM, Don Day wrote:
I am sorry to have missed yesterday's meeting (calendar SNAFU).
I agree with your assessment; template-based specialization
should not be a linchpin of the proposal. Rather, I look on this
activity as an investigation that, if proven practicable, can be
later promoted (venue to be determined, maybe dita.xml.org by
that time) as a best practice for adopters and implementers
(insofar as it involves coding that is not "standardizable").
STC is soliciting papers at the moment. That could be another
opportunity for publication with some potential face time for a
SC member who can present, if it is accepted.
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Don
On 12/15/2016 7:50 AM, Carlos Evia
wrote:
Dear all,
We had a call yesterday to review
the draft of our LwDITA committee note. Looking at the
proposed TOC (and actual content), it is clear that whereas
the XDITA, HDITA, and MDITA sections are looking healthy and
quite consistent, the section on the template-based
specialization is underdeveloped.
Something to consider here:
should we move the specialization section out of this first
LwDITA committee note? Maybe we can keep working on it and
present it in a different document. We can release it as an
article for ACM SIGDOC or the IEEE Transactions on
Professional Communication (I can score some monies to make
it open access and avoid journal paywalls).
I think the IEEE PCS journal
would be interested if we present it as a case study
(marketing specialization, anyone?)
Then, we can develop the sections
on authoring formats (Elliot Kimber’s correct term for
LwDITA’s “flavors”) and have this first committee note out
ASAP.
Comments?
Carlos
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(540)200-8201
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