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 anyone, STC member or non-member. The article discusses these three ideas for merging DITA […]
April 16 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting
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 DITA 1.2 release. If you’d like to do a little pre-work, check out […]
Can DITA train writers? Or does it require too much programming?
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 across a book called Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach that suggests three categories […]