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Training Program Accelerates Content Creation for Homeland Security Classes Using FrameMaker, DITA

Monday, July 09, 2007

Proper training is crucial when responding to emergency situations. For firefighters, police officers, homeland security agents, and others protecting the public, the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) offers renowned training and education programs via its ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : XML : Examples

DITA Users Helps Tech Writers Learn To Master Topic-Based Authoring

Monday, June 25, 2007

By Bob Doyle, Special to TheContentWrangler.com

Launched in January 2007, DITA Users is a 200 member organization for technical communicators just getting started with topic-based structured authoring. Members from sixteen countries around the world participate in ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : Technical Writing : Organizations

If These Walls Could Talk: Unlocking the Interoperability of SCORM, S1000D, and DITA

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

In If These Walls Could Talk, technical communication maven Diane Wieland explores the possibility of using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) as an antecedent, or precursor, to S1000D in order to create smaller bits of reusable information that can be ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : E-Learning : S1000D : XML

Lessons From The Trenches: DocZone.com Is Doing It With DITA

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

In this Rockley Bulletin interview with Christopher Hill of DocZone.com, the application support pro speaks candidly with Scott Abel about his company’s experience moving into the world of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Lessons learned, suggestions ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned : Usage

How Widely Is DITA Being Used? And For What?

Friday, March 10, 2006

A recent DITA-Users Group poll asked members: “How widely is DITA used?” The poll was not scientific and yielded only 56 responses from over 700 group members.

Filed under: DITA : Usage

Case Study: Adobe Uses DITA

Thursday, October 06, 2005

It’s not often you see a software company practice what they preach (structure content; write it once, use it often). Just look at how many content management software company websites contain out-of-date content. Metadata anyone?

Adobe Systems is, however, ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned : Usage : Technical Writing

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