Interviews with people who are actively using DITA.
On DITAWriter I like to provide a voice for those who are working with their own DITA implementation, and the particular issues that they face. All technical communication groups face their unique documentation situations, so the tools needed for the job will vary by need. Mr. Linarez’s technical documentation group opted for DITAToo, an “up-and-coming”Read More
As regular readers of the DITAWriter blog will know, I like to post interviews with people who have shaped how DITA is being used. Liz Fraley, the CEO of Single-Sourcing Solutions has been there since the very beginnings of DITA and has worked with a large number of clients on a variety of XML-based solutions.Read More
Last week I had the opportunity to do a quick interview with Noz Urbina, head of Urbina Consulting and the chief organizer (along with the folks at Mekon) of the Congility conference and workshops happening shortly in Gatwick, U.K. later this June. We talked about what exactly “Congility” is and what to expect from thisRead More
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which is designed to promote greater awareness of accessibility issues and the ways that we can help improve how we deliver digital content for those who require it. Accessibility has long been of interest to me and I advocate it not just because it is often a requirement,Read More
As part of an ongoing effort to put a human face to those building (and using!) the DITA tools out there, this is another in an ongoing series of interviews with the people who are passionate about what they are doing to help make technical documentation easier to create and better to use. As aRead More
Recently I had the honour and opportunity to interview Leigh W. White, author of the recently-published DITA for Print from XML Press. In addition to having authored this book she also works for the DITA CCMS manufacturer Ixiasoft, working with their clients on configuring the system to their needs, and presumably helping out on theRead More
DITA is seeing increasing use outside of the original computer software and hardware sectors from which it was born. One of those areas where DITA has taken off is in the healthcare technology sector, and recently I had the pleasure to interview Mike Kocik, who is the Information Architect at Carestream, where he has ledRead More
Sorry I have not been updating things here as regularly in the past — I have recently taken on a new role at a new company and I have been crazy busy (and enjoyably so!) of late. I promise that you can look forward to more posts and updates to the other pages on thisRead More
In addition to Bob Beims and Colin Maudry who were willing to go on the record, I got replies back from a few other people in the semiconductor industry as well, but they asked to remain anonymous in their replies. They have no objection to their responses being posted, they just can’t have their namesRead More
When asking around the contacts I have in the semiconductor industry about DITA, one other person willing to go on the record was Colin Maudry from NXP. He works for NXP out of its Eindhoven office in The Netherlands, and is a DITA Specialist overseeing the migration of their documentation team over to DITA XML.Read More
