DITA for the Common Man

Date: September 9, 2010, 12:00pm EDT(GMT -4:00) and 9:00am PDT

Length: 1.5 hours; 60 min presentation time and 30 min Q&A time.

Fee: $75.00

Abstract: The DITA Content Collaboration project aims to create a walk-up-and-use, wiki-like DITA experience for literally anyone who needs to share their knowledge with others, with the intention of encouraging the widest possible deployment of basic DITA writing capability. Don will discuss the motivations for the project, demonstrate some common scenarios in both corporate and non-business settings, and describe how the project's goals fit into the spectrum of other DITA tools and collaboration methods currently available.

Presenter: Don Day has worked with enterprise-level, markup-based publishing tools for over 25 years. He designed SGML and XML authoring tools and solutions for use by IBM's Information Development community. He drove the contribution by IBM of the Sourceforge-based DITA Open Toolkit, and led the formation of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee, of which he is Chair. In between exploring new solutions and opportunities for DITA uptake, Don writes and consults about DITA and the Web.