Led by Frank Miller or Hal Trent or Anne Bovard
Duration: two days

Now receive the Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture book free with registration to this workshop.

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an information architecture that presents a powerful solution for the information developers. DITA provides information developers with a standard approach for creating topic-based information and assembling topics into books or other outputs. Topic-based and task-oriented information provides end users with organized and comprehensible solutions for their needs.

Why call it DITA?

Darwin - DITA provides a single-sourced information model that can be specialized to account for your particular authoring needs.

Information Typing - DITA was designed to create technical information based on a core information architecture using concept, task, and reference.

Architecture - DITA provides a framework for designing and delivering technical content efficiently.

DITA provides you with an open source, OASIS standard to support topic-based authoring of well structured content. Out of the box, DITA encompasses three primary information types (concepts, tasks, and reference) that provide a structure amenable to most technical information. And it provides a mechanism for extending the structure through specialization to meet your industry's needs.

In this workshop, you learn that DITA is a standard for authoring topic-based technical information, that using DITA provides significant business advantages, and that you can get started immediately with the DITA Open Toolkit.

Who should attend?

This workshop is designed as an introduction to DITA. It is meant for those who need to implement structured documentation, including writers, editors, information architects, and their managers.

You will learn to

In the workshop, participants will learn to

• build a business case for moving to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
• apply DITA concepts and methodology
• design and create information using a topic/task-based structured writing approach
• use XML markup with DITA elements and the importance of the DITA elements to information development
• use DITA maps and their purpose
• create relationship tables
• recognize the need for specialization in DITA
• evaluate XML editing tools and use the DITA open source toolkit

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