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Request for Feedback: DITA Adoption "Strengths" Analysis

From: Don Day <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:05:00 -0000

and DITA Open Source Standard should be just DITA Open Standard (it's the toolkit that is Open Source, complementing the Open Standard). On 8/18/2015 10:49 AM, Hudson, Scott wrote: Just a few comments/changes: * Minimalist, single source, reusable, cross-platform publishing approach for structured content * DITA Open Source Standard supported/hosted by OASIS Thanks and best regards, Scott Hudson Senior Consultant Comtech Services Inc. 303-232-7586 On 8/18/15, 5:45 AM, [email protected] on behalf of Dr. Stanley Doherty <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: * Significant body of research from MIT, IBM et. al. over many years resulted in DITA * Minimalist, single source, reusable, cross-platform publishing workflow for structured content * DITA enforces structured authoring for consistency and quality * DITA offers a topic-based, rather than a book-based approached to authoring, encouraging reuse of content among multiple deliverables * Separation of structure, content and presentation * DITA Open Source Standard adopted by OASIS * Continued support to open source community from IBM - structure & tool- kit * Multiple XML grammars are available -- RelaxNG, DTD, and Schema * Multiple options for specialization are available -- structural, constraints, shells, and domain vocabularies * The toolkit approach provides a very flexible model for building all kinds of documentation systems, integrating with other XML technologies, e.g. XLIFF, MathML & SVG, and enabling dynamic content publishing & DITA based Wikis, for instance * DITA Maturity Model - start off simple, expand as needed * Adopted by many corporations, many of which also support community * DITA resources abound! Cf. Brenda's & Kristen's recent resource lists. * Because it is XML-based, DITA is easy to localize thereby helping to reduce translation costs and promote translation efficiency * OASIS TC work in support of translations/localisations & broader business content semantics, e.g. XLIFF * Expansion into learning and training, & other industry specific initiatives * Supported by open source tools, tool vendors & consultants * Protection from vendor lock-in * DITA has achieved a huge mind-share in TA/TC communities * DITA can support sharing content across entire industries - or at least vertically, between customers-companies-subcontractors * Builds upon the benefits of the SGML architecture * DITA Open Toolkit provides a standard for how DITA must be processed and ensures exchange with other content creators * DITA editors available today are powerful and usable * DITA enforces a level of consistency at the topic markup and map assembly levels that promotes quality information architecture * DITA domain vocabularies for specific fields of writing immerse writers in that genre, whether it be tech comm, API, learning and training and so on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- Don R. Day Founding Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee LinkedIn: donrday Twitter: @donrday About.me: Don R. Day Skype: don.r. day Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? --T.S. Eliot This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com