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Friday, June 13, 2008

DITA: Opportunities To Help Shape The Standard, Promote DITA Adoption, Develop Real-World Solutions

Want to get involved in the formation of one of the most important XML standards impacting content professionals? You can. And, you should. The folks at OASIS—the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards—have made it easy for just about anyone to participate.

  • Opportunity 1 - The DITA Maturity Model Community and Wiki—Share constructive criticism, make suggestions for improvement, and provide use case scenarios that can help enhance the model. Post comments between 1 June - 31 August 2008 to be automatically entered to win an 8GB Apple iPod Touch and two tickets to DocTrain East.
  • Opportunity 2 - Join The DITA Adoption Technical Committee—Yes, it’s confusing—and the name is kinda stupid—but the DITA Adoption Technical Committee has nothing to do with the technicalities of DITA. It has everything to do with moving the standard into the mainstream, where widespread adoption can have maximum impact. Smart marketing folks and new media mavens are definitely needed, as well as sponsors to provide financial support for these efforts.
  • Opportunity 3 - One Laptop Per Child, DITA, Wikipedia, Wiki Slice Project—The mission of this project is to deliver a proof of concept that demonstrates how to create custom curriculum materials from Wikipedia for the One Laptop Per Child program. Objectives include pulling content from Wikipedia into the DITA format, delivering Wikipedia resources in an interchange-friendly and semantically-rich set of DITA-specialized topics that can be used as classroom materials, integrating DITA topics using a DITA map derived from a wiki slice. Get involved. Add your name to the team roster.

So, what are you waiting for? Get involved today!

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Filed under: DITA : Adoption : Usage : XML

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DITA Maturity Model Contest - Win an iPod Touch, Free Tickets To DocTrain East

Monday, August 18, 2008

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Submit your quality contributions to the newly launched DITA Maturity Model Community (MMC) before August 31, 2008, and you could win an 8GB Apple iPod Touch and two tickets to Documentation and Training East.

The DITA MMC (part of the DITA XML.org Wiki Knowledgebase) is an extension of the original white paper developed by Michael Priestley, lead IBM DITA architect, and Amber Swope, principal consultant for JustSystems. The DITA MMC lets you browse, edit, and add to a collaborative knowledgebase of information on using and understanding the DITA Maturity Model.

“The goal of the DITA Maturity Model Community is to elevate the discussion off the page,” said Jake Sorofman, senior vice president of marketing and business development for JustSystems. “Now, practitioners, managers and executives have access to a working forum where they can share knowledge and practical guidance, develop business cases, test out implementation scenarios, and get peer-to-peer advice.”

September 20 Webinar: Dynamic Technical Content Delivery Using DITA

Sunday, September 16, 2007

If you’re just using XML to publish to pre-defined PDF, HTML and Help formats, you are missing the boat. The real promise of XML is in supporting dynamic, personalized content delivery. Learn how during this free, one hour webinar. Register!


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