Re: [dita] The (many) drivers for Lightweight DITA

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Dear DITA TC Committee Members,

    
As I have been suggesting this since 2008, I feel that I was way
      ahead of my time. Having worked on many enterprise component based
      publishing systems that pre-dated DITA it was obvious to me that
      DITA was, for many applications, overly complex and that this
      would add considerably to the costs of development and
      implementation. This is not a criticism of DITA: the TC has done
      great work in producing a spec that allows for complex publishing
      scenarios. Unfortunately, this comes at a huge cost regarding
      implementation. The analogy is where all a customer wants to buy
      is a simple sub compact automibile and we are trying to sell them
      a heavy lifting capacity mobile crane. 

    

    
EDEN (Electronic documentation essential norm) is DITA slimmed
      down to the core removing the major impediments to simple
      implementation, but still a valid subset of DITA. The concept is
      based on 20 years of experience with tech doc publishing at
      various large enterprise companies. I know of many engineering
      companies that manage to author and publish complex workshop
      manuals with a very simplified XML component based publication
      system. The benefits of a DITA EDEN subset are that it is still
      valid DITA and and all existing DITA tools will work with it, and
      most important of all it would be an Open Standard.

    

    Please find attached my presentation from the CIDM DITA NA 2012
    conference which lays out most of the principles required to
    implement a usable, cheap and simple DITA implementation.

    

    

      Best Regards,

      

      Andrzej Zydroń

      
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On 18/10/2016 23:18, Kristen James
      Eberlein wrote:

    

    
      
      
And a critical addition:

      
        
Expanding DITA into new markets: Web developments and ones
          that we don't know of yet

        

      
      
Best,

        Kris

        

        Kristen James Eberlein

        Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

        Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

        www.eberleinconsulting.com

        +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

        

      

      
On 10/18/2016 5:57 PM, Kristen James
        Eberlein wrote:

      

      
        
        
We mentioned the following drivers on the DITA TC call today:

        
          
Desire for a subset of full DITA that is less complex,
            simpler to author, and cheaper/easier to build tools to
            support

          
Easier specialization

          
Tooling to make easier specialization possible

          

          
Ability to have HTML and Markdown versions to enable
            contribution from authors who want to author in that format

          
Commitment to interoperability; Lightweight DITA must
            be able to be absorbed by full DITA. (The reverse is not the
            case.)

          
Current plans for Lightweight DITA to have elements and
            attributes that are not available in DITA 1.3, such as
            <video>, <audio>, @specmodel and more

          

        
        Am I missing any of the key points that were raised? I think I
        am ...

        

        I'd encourage DITA TC voting members to think about the
        following:

        
          
How would you rank these different drivers? Are some more
            important to you than others?

          
Do you think that Lightweight DITA might be delivered in
            phases? If so, what would you want to see first?

          
Do you think that some of these drivers affect each other?
            Or be in conflict with each other? If so, how can that be
            mitigated?

        
        
How can we best promote discussion on the DITA TC about
          Lightweight DITA and where the subcommittee is currently at?

        
          
Regular item on the agenda

          
Survey

          
Other thoughts?

        
        For folks who were on today's call but silent, I'd be happy to
        have calls with you.
        
Cc'd to the Lightweight DITA subcommittee.

        

        
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          Best,

          Kris

          

          Kristen James Eberlein

          Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

          Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting

          www.eberleinconsulting.com

          +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

          

        

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