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As the focus on content broadens to include the entire content usage lifecycle, we need to consider not just the needs of individual departments but the need for collaboration and coordination across the entire content management ecosystem, from marketing to support. The good news is that content requirements are converging around a set of core characteristics: modular, structured, semantically rich content that is findable, usable, and reusable across contexts and applications. For content to flow across organizational boundaries, it must be standardized. Does DITA have the answer?

Presented by Kristen James Eberlein at the IXIASOFT User Conference 2015. Panel with Keith Schengili-Roberts, IXIASOFT DITA Information Architect, Kristen James Eberlein, DITA Specialist and Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee, Yan Periard, and Leigh W. White This panel presentation will discuss the features of the IXIASOFT DITA CMS related to DITA 1.3. Panellists will describe the key new enhancements coming with DITA 1.3, and the features within the DITA CMS that will support them. This session will explore not only the implications of DITA 1.3 for content creators and information architects, but the role that IXIASOFT plays in guiding the development of the standard as a member of OASIS, and the types of features IXIASOFT is working on to support this significant update to the standard.

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Presented at DocTrain East 2007 by Bob Doyle, DITA Users -- This introduction to XML Authoring will acquaint you with over fifty tools aimed at structuring content with DITA. They are not just DITA-compliant authoring tools (editors) for writers. They also include content management systems (CMS), translation management systems (TMS), and dynamic publishing engines that fully support DITA. You will also need to know about tools that convert legacy documents to DITA and help to design stylesheets for DITA deliverables. The best DITA tools for technical communicators implement the DITA standard while hiding all the complexity of the underlying XML (eXtensible Markup Language). As a tech writer and not a tech, you should be able to forget about XML - except to know that you are using it (DITA is XML) and that it consists of named content elements (or components) with attributes. You need to know enough about the content elements so you can reference (conref) them for reuse. You need to know about their attributes so you can filter on them for conditional processing. And you should appreciate that because components are uniquely identifiable they lend themselves perfectly to automated dynamic assembly using a publishing engine. We will describe how you can get started with structured writing without knowing XML or installing anything. The promise of topic-based structured authoring is not simply better documentation. It is the creation of mission-critical information for your organization, written with a deep understanding of your most important audiences, that can be repurposed to multiple delivery channels and localized for multilingual global markets. You are not just writing content, you are preparing the information deliverables that enhance the value of your organization in all its markets. To do that well, you must understand the latest tools in structured writing that are revolutionizing corporate information systems - today in documentation but tomorrow throughout the enterprise, from external marketing to internal human resources. Whether you are trying to push a new product into a new market or are “onboarding” a new employee, the need for high quality information to educate the customer or train the new salesperson is a challenge for technical communicators. You need to think outside the docs! The key idea behind Darwin Information Typing Architecture is to create content in small chunks or modules called topics. A topic is the right size when it can stand alone as meaningful information. Topics are then assembled into documents using DITA maps, which are hierarchical lists of pointers or links to topics. The pointers are called “topicrefs” (for topic references). Think of documents as assembled from single-source component parts. Assembly can be conditional, dependent on properties or metadata “tags” you attach to a topic. For example, the “audience” property might be “beginner” or “advanced.” At a still finer level of granularity, individual elements of a topic can also be assigned property tags for conditional assembly. More importantly, a topic element can be assigned a unique ID that makes it a content component reusable in other topics. As you will learn, DITA is a leading technology for “component content management,” which multiplies the value of your work. You need to leverage DITA and structured content to multiply your income.

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Optimizing Content Reuse with DITA - slides from FREE webinar presented by LavaCon, with Keith Schengili-Roberts, IXIASOFT DITA Specialist DITA was designed around the idea of content reuse. Maps, topics, conrefs and keys all provide the means for sharing and reusing content effectively within a documentation team using the standard. But what are the optimal ways of doing this, and what are the common mistakes first-time DITA users make when it comes to content reuse? Did you know that DITA 1.3 offers up additional means for reusing content by using such things as scoped keys? And what good is content reuse if you can’t find the content you are looking for? In this presentation IXIASOFT’s DITA Specialist Keith Schengili-Roberts will examine content reuse best practices, and look at how the idea of content reuse has evolved, changed and been refined since DITA first debuted over ten years ago. This webinar will be conducted through GoToWebinar, and the link will be sent the day before the event. Webinar sponsored by IXIASOFT, presented by LavaCon.

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One of the key benefits of lightweight DITA is that it frees the value points of DITA from a strict dependency on the XML format. You can author valid lightweight DITA content in multiple formats, including markdown and HTML5. These slides, developed by Michael Priestley, Jenifer Schlotfeldt, and Carlos Evia, accompanied a demonstration of how lightweight topics of various content types can be created in XML, markdown, and HTML5, while continuing to make use of standard DITA features such as content reuse and conditional processing and flowing into a common published deliverable, such as an HTML web site, PDF, or EPUB.

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Presented at the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference in 2016; this version is from a repeat of the presentation in webinar form, and includes some additional slides. Lightweight DITA is being developed at OASIS by a subcommittee of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. It is designed to make adoption of DITA easier for both users and tool developers. The subcommittee is looking at usage scenarios in areas such as marketing, education, software development, and machine industries. The goals of the (in-development) specification are: - simplified topic and map definitions with tighter content models and fewer elements - simplified specialization process that makes new specializations as easy to create as new topics - multi-format content, with mappings to not only XML, but also markdown, HTML5, and JSON Michael Priestley shares the current state of the lightweight DITA specification, focusing on the current draft document types for topic and map, and reviews the lightweight specialization process.

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