Clear Point Coffee: DITA inside and outside a CMS
We had an excellent program last Thursday with Stan Doherty from Verivue presenting on Content Management Systems: Using DITA outside a CMS and inside a CMS. Stan was most generous to share his slides (attached). Stan covered basic strategies in the DITA process and a quick overview from start to finish! Also, presenting was Judy … Continue reading
JoAnn Hackos presents: DITA Boot Camp on the East Coast
The meeting we sponsored in May with JoAnn Hackos was a great success, with Managers eager to ask questions about DITA, structured documentation and related issues. JoAnn’s company Comtech is holding it’s famous DITA BOOT CAMP next week in Warrendale, PA. It’s not Boston but at least it’s on the East Coast! Here is a … Continue reading
DITA + Wiki = The Open-Source DITA2Wiki Project
In my reading about how companies are using wiki’s , I came across this interesting article on the Writers UA web site. In 2007, Lombardi donated this framework to the community as the open-source “DITA2Wiki Project” on SourceForge.net. If you would like to read the enitre story here it is: http://www.writersua.com/articles/DITA2Wiki/index.html If you have any … Continue reading
DITA XML Boston User Group
There are so many questions that come up as Documentation Managers look for answers to DITA questions. I found another resource to pass on to everyone: DITA XML Boston User Group is a yahoo group with a good thread of chat on the many aspects of DITA implementation. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ditabug They have meetings although the next … Continue reading