DITA at Adobe - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

If you’re looking for information about real-world use of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), check out this interview with Puny Sen, Project Lead, Instructional Communications, Adobe Systems. Sen is candid, sharing the good, the bad and the ugly about the software giant’s foray into the world of the DITA including:

the percentage of content Adobe was able to reuse
the difficulties writers faced moving from unstructured to structured FrameMaker
the need for DITA specialization wizards
the absence of mature Map editors
why DITA needs to be constrained
why information architecture needs to be adapted to DITA
the flattening of conditional text, attributes, and cross-references
and the need for a close examination of content granularity prior to adopting DITA

Read the interview

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