Comtech Services, Inc. provides a full-range of training, consulting, and support for any group considering a move to DITA. We offer a workshop series including DITA Getting Started, in addition to our regular offerings in structured writing, minimalism, and content management implementation. JoAnn Hackos, Comtech President, the industry's leading expert in information architecture, creates consulting arrangements that lead to information architecture, process redesign, and leadership in change management. With a staff of DITA technical experts, Comtech enables organizations to implement the DITA DTDs, create specializations, develop XSL-FO and other style transformations, manage DITA for translation, and adapt DITA production processing to individual requirements. Comtech also sponsors the leading DITA conferences in the US and Europe with Content Management Strategies and DITA Europe, bringing together successful publications experts and leading product vendors.

Comtech information design and technical experts provide you with the support you need to get started quickly with DITA. We can work with your staff to support their efforts or set up your DITA implementation and train your staff to take over. We can:

• Help you develop your business case for moving to DITA
• Offer training to introduce the concepts of structured writing, minimalism, and topic-based authoring to your information developers
• Assist you in setting up an information architecture team and developing a DITA architecture specific to your needs
• Develop your information architecture through a detailed analysis of your content
• Create the DITA specializations you require
• Assist you in establishing new information-development processes
• Create style sheets for PDF, HTML, and other DITA output
• Set up your DITA processing and train your production specialists
• Develop a DITA integration with your localization service provider
• Work with your leadership team to develop and implement a change management plan

If you would like to learn more about any of our consulting services or you would like to talk to a representative about scheduling an activity, please email or call 303-232-7586.

CIDM Information Management News Articles

• Is DITA Going to Tip?
• The Effect of DITA on Information-Development Roles
• Linking DITA Topics Through Relationship Tables
• December 2005 Best Practices Newsletter Table of Contents on DITA
• Vasont Systems releases Vasont 10
• Closing the Globalization Gap with DITA
• Topic-based Authoring: It's Not All About the Technology
• DITA Becomes an OASIS Standard
• IBM's Darwin Information Typing Architecture
• Design Patterns: Creating Consistent Information Designs for Print and Web
• OASIS has formed a Technical Committee to support the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
• Process Maturity Found, Level 4: Managed and Sustainable

Helpful DITA Resources

• DITA Open Toolkit Installation Guide
• Developing DITA Maps Presentation
• Emerging Standard Eases Content Modeling Headaches
• DITA Deep Dive
• DITA Technology Review
• DITA information by Lori Fisher
• DITA information from IBM
• General Information on DITA
• DITA XML.org Focus Area
• OASIS Open Standard on DITA
• IBM information on DITA
• Analysis - DITA Cuts the Cost of Content Reuse
• Structuring Your Documents to Maximize Reuse
• Making a Business Case for Single Sourcing

DITA User Guides:

Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Arbortext Edition
by JoAnn Hackos

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Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
by Jennifer Linton & Kylene Bruski

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