The document discusses combining DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) with Drupal for documentation purposes. DITA is a standard for authoring, publishing, and managing structured content, while Drupal is an open-source content management system. Integrating the two allows leveraging Drupal's community and tools for DITA-based documentation. Features like DITA forms in Drupal and exporting DITA maps could improve documentation processes. The talk invites the audience to join the community effort around using DITA and Drupal together for documentation.

1. Doing DITA in the Open Source CMS Drupal Kristof Van Tomme, Pronovix CMS/DITA N-America, April 4-6, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland

2. Kristof Van Tomme Belgian Bio-engineer Pronovix Drupal architect Entrepreneur PM of the Drupal Association Hungarian connection Techno-optimist Biotech Drupal evangelist Husband and Father Strategist CEO

3. More than technology Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?

4. What is drupal?

5. Drupal sites you might know

7. Communities

8. Cutting edge technology

9. Open innovation

10. Collaborative development

11. Empowering self-learning individuals

13. Communities

14. Cutting edge technology

15. Open innovation

16. Collaborative development

17. Empowering self-learning individuals OPEN

19. Drupal core

20. Modules

21. Features (apps)

22. Themes

23. Distributions Illustration by developmentseed.org when introducing the features module

25. Collaborative market intelligence (Managing News)

26. Customer community platform (Drupal Commons)

27. Governments (Open Public)

28. Publishing companies (Open Publish)

29. Recruitment (e-recruiter)

30. Software as a Service (Aegir + any of the above)

31. ...

32. More than technology Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?

33. Drupal is a grassroots community “ Come for the code, stay for the community

35. A vast network of service providers

36. A fast expanding library of handbooks

37. A network of trainers

38. Used in the biggest enterprise deployments

39. Venture backed professional support companies

40. More than technology Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?

41. Drupal's own Documentation

43. A lot of pretty good documentation

45. API.d.o

46. help in drupal core

47. issue queue

48. groups.drupal.org

49. blogs

51. No reuse between documentation types

52. Documentation is split between resources

53. Hard to enforce standards

54. A given documentation page is written for a single audience type

55. Issues with version specific documentation

56. More than technology Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?

57. Combining Drupal & DITA

59. Interoperability

60. Extensibility

61. Human friendly metadata handling

62. Game dynamics (user points)

63. social graph (Facebook integration)

64. Community tools (those web 2.0 things)

65. RDFa (those web 3.0 things)

67. Interoperability

68. Extensibility

69. Human friendly metadata handling

70. Game dynamics (user points)

71. social graph (Facebook integration)

72. Community tools (those web 2.0 things)

73. RDFa (those web 3.0 things) CUTTING EDGE

75. Conditional text

76. Conrefs

78. More documentation writers

79. More than technology Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?

80. All that for a community of > ½ Million users

81. The problem is...

82. Mere mortals don't write XML

83. Drupal had/has a similar problem

84. Crossing the chasm http://www.exampler.com/testing-com/writings/reviews/moore-chasm.html DRUPAL

85. The long tail of documentation http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=53

86. The long tail of documentation HOW DO DITA x 5?

87. How do DITA x 5 http://www.archive.org/details/drupalconchi_day3_keynote_jared_spool $ Need a cheap step in solution Usability

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89. Words are silver, code is gold

91. Store in Drupal, export in DITA

92. Currently implemented for tasks and concepts

93. Drupal DITA forms

94. Drupal DITA form builder (CCK)

98. Folder importer

100. Create a new DITA map in the GUI

101. Export the map and the topics it contains

102. Ditamaps as mindmaps

103. Add content with Views queries

104. Ditamaps as mindmaps

105. Export with Open Toolkit

106. You can download this for free at http://drupal.org/project/dita

108. DITA form to DITA XML Graphical UI

109. Authoring memory

110. Conref library

111. WYSIWYG or markup

113. DITA distribution

114. A toolbox with 6000+ free modules CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by libertyandvigilance http://www.flickr.com/photos/10459273@N05/3935251879/sizes/z/in/photostream/ 8800+

115. Our business = help you realize Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?!

117. Everyone contributes to documentation

118. A new niche grows in our community for technical writers

119. Projects can be documented from a Fingerprint (XML settings dump)

120. Invitation to join our community

121. Community portal for DITA Open Source Open Innovation Distributions-SAAS Structured docs Multi-format Training DITA Drupal Technology Community Craftsmanship DIY users Enterprise Consultants Documentation writers Vendors ?

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123. Twitter @kvantomme LinkedIn be.linkedin.com/in/kvantomme [email_address]

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