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Saturday, December 31, 2005

The Case for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture

In Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization, Bill Trippe (The Gilbane Report) examines software developer Information Builders and their experience implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) to manage a large set of localized product documentation.

“IBI made a strategic decision to adopt DITA, has implemented it, and is already realizing benefits from the decision,” Trippe writes.

Trippe documents some of the benefits IBI enjoys since implementing DITA including:

• Elimination of formatting and reformatting tasks
• Manipulation of content in ways previously unavailable
• Modular, reusable, topic-oriented content
• Significantly reduced translation turnaround

Read Topic-Oriented Information Development and Its Role in Globalization.

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