Hot Topics: DITA

Hot Topics: DITA: "Comtech Services releases DITA User Guide. A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture"

Free DITA Pocket Guide from SiberLogic

Free DITA Pocket Guide: "SiberLogic are offerring a free DITA Pocket Guide"

New DITA web site DITA.XML.org

DITA XML.org Focus Area - The official community gathering place and information resource for the DITA OASIS Standard.

IBM Task Modeler

IBM Task Modeler: "Task Modeler is an Eclipse-based software tool for modeling human activity as a hierarchy of tasks and related elements. An information architect can use it to design DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) maps. "

Lionbridge Joins DITA Technical Committee

Lionbridge Joins DITA Technical Committee: "WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionbridge Technologies,
Inc., (Nasdaq: LIOX), today announced that it has joined the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) working group as a member of the technical committee."

Subject classification with DITA and SKOS

Subject classification with DITA and SKOS: "Use a DITA specialization to manage the subject matter of your document content -- that is, identify and process your content based on what each topic is about. With the approach outlined in this article, you can take advantage of the technologies of the Semantic Web for improved search, integration, and other processing. Instead of starting from scratch, however, you can build on standard topic-oriented strategies for authoring and processing content."

Linking DITA Topics Through Relationship Tables

Linking DITA Topics Through Relationship Tables: "In the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), authors can link within topics to other topics through the element. "

DITA Open Toolkit 1.2 is released!

SourceForge.net: DITA Open Toolkit 1.2 is released!: "DITA open toolkit Release 1.2 is a major release to add new functions, fulfill new requirements, make some function enhancements and fix bugs over release 1.1.2.1. "

DITA open toolkit Release 1.2 beta

DITA open toolkit Release 1.2 beta: "DITA open toolkit Release 1.2 beta is the release for testing before the formal release 1.2." Among other things, this release includes transformations for Word RTF, a tool to migrate html to DITA, better error handling (this has been a problem in the past) and several bug fixes.

Success in Standards-Based Content Creation and Delivery at Global Companies

Success in Standards-Based Content Creation and Delivery at Global Companies
Good white paper by Bill Trippe about DITA and where it's going.

CambridgeDocs Announces xDoc Converter Version 2.0

CambridgeDocs Announces xDoc Converter Version 2.0: "Provides sample DITA templates for migrating Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, HTML and PDF files to DITA XML"