Comments on: Notes from April 2008 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/07/notes-from-april-2008-central-texas-dita-user-group-meeting/ Documentation as conversation Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: annegentle http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/07/notes-from-april-2008-central-texas-dita-user-group-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 annegentle Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:23:51 +0000 http://justwriteclick.com/?p=371#comment-1087 Hi Bill, my memory is fuzzy, but I think the point is to author in DITA (using this DITA Open Toolkit plugin, with DTD and XSD schemas, sample content, and documentation sources from http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27841/1apr2008_learningsc_plugin.zip) and transform to SCORM. That's how Eliot Kimber got his SCORM-compliant online assessments for "free" since the content was already in DITA - he just re-did the element tagging (mapping carefully) and he was good to go. Wow, great find of the Microsoft Word/Sharepoint/DITA workflow with DITA Exchange. Sharepoint's at so many larger companies now... that's big news. Thanks for sharing! Hi Bill, my memory is fuzzy, but I think the point is to author in DITA (using this DITA Open Toolkit plugin, with DTD and XSD schemas, sample content, and documentation sources from http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27841/1apr2008_learningsc_plugin.zip) and transform to SCORM. That’s how Eliot Kimber got his SCORM-compliant online assessments for “free” since the content was already in DITA – he just re-did the element tagging (mapping carefully) and he was good to go.

Wow, great find of the Microsoft Word/Sharepoint/DITA workflow with DITA Exchange. Sharepoint’s at so many larger companies now… that’s big news. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Bill Albing http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/07/notes-from-april-2008-central-texas-dita-user-group-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 Bill Albing Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:45:51 +0000 http://justwriteclick.com/?p=371#comment-1078 So a question I asked more than a year ago is "What will happen at the intersection of SCORM and DITA?" Will we author in DITA and then use XSLTs to transform to SCORM as needed or vice versa, or should companies develop content in their own DTD and transform to DITA and SCORM as needed? Is an answer evident from the presentation of the DITA experts? And to add to your DITA news, there's a brief mention of Microsoft (of all companies) working with DITA -- see my blog entry at KeyContent.org (http://www.keycontent.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=247). So a question I asked more than a year ago is “What will happen at the intersection of SCORM and DITA?” Will we author in DITA and then use XSLTs to transform to SCORM as needed or vice versa, or should companies develop content in their own DTD and transform to DITA and SCORM as needed? Is an answer evident from the presentation of the DITA experts?

And to add to your DITA news, there’s a brief mention of Microsoft (of all companies) working with DITA — see my blog entry at KeyContent.org (http://www.keycontent.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=247).

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