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DITA: One Slide Fits All for Technical Publishing?. November 29, 2007 Gilbane Boston Conference 2007. Panelists. Don Bridges , Tech Docs Manager, Data Conversion Labs Roland Brooks , Principal Software Engineer, Raytheon Company
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DITA: One Slide Fits All for Technical Publishing? November 29, 2007 Gilbane Boston Conference 2007
Panelists • Don Bridges, Tech Docs Manager, Data Conversion Labs • Roland Brooks, Principal Software Engineer, Raytheon Company • Bob Doyle, Founder, DITA Users, President & CEO, skyBuilders
DITA / S1000D and other fun stuff • Good Fits for DITA in Particular • Reusable Content (multiple similar ‘products’) • Multiple Languages • DITA and S1000D • "We are looking at DITA coming into this mix, not as a competing standard, but an integrated piece" Tim Tate, Director JTPC • Which way do I go • Look at your peers • Look at the comparative ROI models
STANDARDS DITA S1000D DOCBOOK MIL-STD-40051 ATA iSpec 2200 SAE J2008 Dozens of organization-specific standards And then there’s XHTML SELECTION CRITERIA Customer requirements Marketability Industry adoption Vendor support Active governing body and user community Ease of use Framework or detailed Extensible or rigid Cost to implement Technical Publications Standards
DITA: One Size Fits All? • OASIS – DITA at 1.1 • DITA User Communities • Authoring Tools – XMetaL, Arbortext, FrameMaker, oXygen, DITA Storm, Word* • DITA CMS - Astoria, XyEnterprise, PTC, XDocs • DITA Open Toolkit • Bookmaps (DocBook, DITABook) • ELearning in 1.2 • DITA News, DITA Users, DITA Infocenter