Topic: The pros and cons of using DITA with a CMS.
Speaker: Bret Freeman, of JustSystems/XMetaL.
Topic: The pros and cons of using DITA with a CMS.
Speaker: Bret Freeman, of JustSystems/XMetaL.
Topic: Content Reuse at the Element Level.
Speaker: Megan Bock, IBM.
Presentation materials: reuse.ppt [52KB].
Topic: Group discussion on things learned at the DITA 2007 conference.
Speaker: All.
Referenced materials: Erik Hennum’s presentation on “Specialization by Example” specbyex.pdf [421KB]. (See www.ditamap.com/presentations.php?event=2 for others.)
Topic: Using the DITA API Specializations to create a common schema for API reference material.
Speaker: Puny Sen, Information Architect at Adobe Systems, Inc.
Topic: The Best of Both Worlds: Publishing DITA with Adobe Rendition Technologies.
Speaker: Max Dunn, President of Silicon Publishing, Inc.
Topic: Enhancing the management of your DITA content with a Content Management System.
Speaker: Fred Lass, a Senior Solutions Architect at Astoria Software.
Presentation materials: SVDITA_Users_Nov-8-2006.ppt [1165KB].
Topic: DITA taxonomy specialization and subject classification (including comparison with indexing and glossary).
Speaker: Erik Hennum, of IBM.
Presentation materials: DITATaxonomyClassification.zip [778KB].
Topic: Information Architecture 101
Speaker: Jennifer Fell, of IBM.
Presentation materials: JFell_Information_Architecture.ppt [300KB].
Topic: Supertasks in DITA
Speaker: Megan Bock, of IBM.
Presentation materials: supertasksInDITA.plain.ppt [720KB]
Sample files: sampleFilesSimulated.zip [90KB], sampleFilesTypical.zip [90KB], and sampleFilesCopyToAttribute.zip [92MB].
Topic: Implementing DITA: Production Notes from a Real-World DITA Open Toolkit Project
Speakers: Anna van Raaphorst, Content Specialist and Richard (Dick) Johnson, Technology Specialist at VR Communications, Inc., consultancy for multichannel communications solutions.
Presentation materials: ImplementingDITA.pdf [139KB]