Feature articles by DITAWriter or by other contributors.
This presentation was one of the highlights of the conference for me, as most of the people responsible for driving the new DITA 1.2 specification were there to talk about what they had come up with. Starting off the panel in the same way that he would normally be speaking with this group Don DayRead More
It was an interesting opening keynote session for the Content Management Strategies 2010 conference that opened this morning at the Hyatt Regenecy in sunny Santa Clara. JoAnn Hackos opened the procedings shortly after 8am, and amongst other things announced the cancellation of a few speakers who were tied up in Europe and effectively grounded by theRead More
Prior to working with DITA XML, I worked as an Information Architect for the various professional Web sites. (I still teach a couple of courses on this subject at the University of Toronto’s Professional Learning Centre). I was intrigued with the idea of applying the same skills and techniques that I had learned from theRead More
Let’s get the definitions out of the way first: DITA is short for “Darwin Information Typing Architecture”, hence the acronym. This is not so much a definition of what DITA is, it is more a description of what the acronym stands. From a more practical standpoint, DITA is an open XML standard which is designedRead More
I work as a technical writer and manager for a technical publications team that has been using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) for several years in production. My intention with this blog is to share of my knowledge of DITA with others, to keep track of the latest developments in the field, and toRead More
