Speedlinking – Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is one of those topics that get mentioned in the tech writing community. Over here in Shanghai I’ve had a few meetings with companies wanting to get a handle on what’s involved and some URLs for them to look at.

I thought I’d share these with you. Many are from the IBM site as it is committed to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and is one of the drivers behind OASIS. If you know of any more, please let me know.

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DITA standard DITA Focus Area at dita.xml.org.

IBM donated DITA to the OASIS standards organization in March of 2004. OASIS DITA Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org

OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Language Specification: http://xml.coverpages.org

OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Architectural Specification: http://xml.coverpages.org

Specifications, DTDs, and Schemas from OASIS DITA Technical Committee site: http://www.oasis-open.org

Open Toolkit project site on SourceForge: http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net.

Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture developerWorks

Specializing topic types in DITA article (developerWorks, updated September 2005).
Read Erik Hennum’s article Specializing domains in DITA, which shows you how to leverage the extensible DITA DTD to describe new domains of information

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