Summer is here and what better time to learn more about DITA XML? 😉 Okay, maybe that’s not for everyone, but this series of webinars hosted by easyDITA look to be an interesting way to while away a lunchtime. Unfortunately I came into this information a bit late (busy with work!), but there are aRead More
Sometimes there’s a flood of information that is DITA-related that happens all at the same time. Today just happens to be one of those days. Here’s a quick run-through of some DITA items of note: Book Release: DITA Metrics 101 Mark Lewis’ new DITA Metrics 101 book was officially launched at the Intelligent Content conferenceRead More
I’m sure that the phrase “DITA tease” is more commonly associated with the other famous DITA out there, but the people who make the DITAToo CMS have released what they promise is a final teaser ahead of an upcoming survey on how people convert legacy content to DITA. When asked what tools people are usingRead More
The folks at DITAToo have released another teaser on the results they are getting for a survey they are running that asks how people are converting legacy content to DITA. This shows the answers to two questions: what is the percentage of organizations that are re-writing or re-structuring their content in order to make itRead More
This is a the fourth in a series of pieces devoted to “Thinking in DITA” aimed at providing technical writers just starting out with DITA the thought processes behind writing technical documents in DITA. Whereas most DITA tutorials focus on the mechanics of writing – such as DITA’s tag set – this series examines whatRead More
The folks at DITAToo have been running a survey asking people how they convert their legacy content over to DITA. The preliminary results are interesting if not terribly surprising: the vast majority of users are converting their content over from Unstructured FrameMaker, and after that, from Word: From the structure of the survey questions itRead More
This is a the third in a series of pieces devoted to “Thinking in DITA” aimed at providing technical writers just starting out with DITA the thought processes behind writing technical documents in DITA. Whereas most DITA tutorials focus on the mechanics of writing—such as DITA’s tag set—this series examines what goes into writing andRead More
This is the second in a series of pieces devoted to “Thinking in DITA” aimed at providing technical writers just starting out with DITA the thought processes behind writing technical documents in DITA. Whereas most DITA tutorials focus on the mechanics of writing—such as DITA’s tag set—this series examines what goes into writing and thinkingRead More
This is the first in a series of pieces devoted to “Thinking in DITA” aimed at providing technical writers just starting out with DITA the thought processes behind writing technical documents in DITA. Whereas most DITA tutorials focus on the mechanics of writing—such as DITA’s tag set—this series examines what goes into writing and thinkingRead More
The SDIG folk are back after a summer hiatus, starting off with an open discussion of information development issues that people are facing in their DITA implementation. Basically we are looking for some good discussion as well as some ideas that you would like us to tackle for future presentation. Bob Beims will kick offRead More
