Posts Tagged ‘OASIS’

Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid

{ Posted on Apr 17 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, wiki, writing
The April 2008 issue of the STC Intercom magazine is dedicated to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). I'm pleased that the Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid article that I co-authored with Lisa Dyer and Michael Priestly is available online for free to ...Read More »

April 16 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 09 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, agile
From http://dita.xml.org/book/central-texas-dita-user-group Using DITA Content for Learning Content Development John Hunt, of IBM, will give a presentation regarding the use of DITA for learning content. He's been working on a new Learning and Training Content specialization that will be part of OASIS ...Read More »

Can DITA train writers? Or does it require too much programming?

{ Posted on Feb 13 2008 by annegentle }
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DITA for writers (content creators) I just did a search on amazon.com for books for beginning technical writers and also to investigate what books are being written for our profession and for others wanting to start in our profession. I came ...Read More »

Q and A about Author-it and DITA – guest post from Mike Stockman

{ Posted on Nov 29 2007 by annegentle }
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I read this recent conversation on the author-it-users Yahoo Group with interest. I haven't had a need to author DITA topics with Author-it, so I have to rely on others for information on how it works. With Mike Stockman's and ...Read More »

Something old, something new – design patterns

{ Posted on Nov 16 2007 by annegentle }
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I'm feeling a little late to the party of patterns that I've been reading about lately, but after attending Michael Hughes’ STC webinar presentation "Pattern Language as a Workshop Management Tool" where we saw patterns for user assistance, and we ...Read More »

Are structured authoring and wiki opposing forces?

{ Posted on Oct 11 2007 by annegentle }
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It was one of those light-bulb-type discussions. Ideas popping and synapses firing. I had lunch with Chris Almond and Don Day this past week, discussing the potential authoring of wiki articles using DITA. We went through possible workflows, from a ...Read More »