don day and richard hamilton: dita and wikis
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Agenda•The Language of project – history and objectives
•The DITA technology – expeDITA
•The rest of the technology – DocBook, et al.
•Your questions...
In Development
The Language of Business Storytelling The Language of Cyber Security The Language of Data Visualization The Language of Localization
A collaboration betweenThe Content Wrangler
andXML Press
The Language of Project
More to come...
Additional Series Titles
Project Objectives•Provide a common vocabulary for a discipline
•Give contributors visibility
•Demonstrate the value of intelligent content
•Demonstrate multiple supporting technologies
•Dive more deeply into selected topics, e.g.:• Intelligent content
• Localization/globalization
• Content strategy and content management
Language of Book Structure•52 terms in 4-5 categories
•Terms range from basic to cutting edge
•Each contributor owns one term
•Each term has:• One-sentence definition
• One-paragraph statement of importance
• 250-word essay on why a practitioner needs to know the term
Project Deliverables – Print
Project Deliverables – eBook
Project Deliverables – Web
Production (current)
expeDITA DITAConvert toDocBook
DocBook
DocBook
Sty
lesheets
Ebook
Web
ContributorInput
BookDeliverables
ExternalWebsite
(WordPress)
expeDITA DITAConvert toDocBook
DocBook
DocBook
Sty
lesheets
Ebook
ContributorInput
BookDeliverables
ExternalWebsite
Production (future)
DemonstrationSEE SPEAKER NOTES FOR THE DEMO SCRIPT
Questions?•And catch us later to dive deep on:• Adding a new compendium
•How facilitators develop outlines and contacts
•How the framework manages DITA as content
•How the specialized structure helps drive the workflow
• Benefits of publishing from XML source
