Companies require content to support ever-increasing requirements, including: This white paper describes the business justifications for investing in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)—an open source XML standard—as a foundation for content management.Executive summary
Gretyl Kinsey: Welcome to the Content Strategy Experts Podcast, brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize, and distribute content in an efficient way. In episode 36 we talk about Lightweight DITA and more with Dr. Carlos Evia, and Michael Priestley. This is the second of two podcasts featuring these special guests.
In part two of two, Lightweight DITA (LwDITA) committee co-chairs, Carlos Evia and Michael Priestley, elaborate on LwDITA’s development, including use scenarios and user testing.
Gretyl Kinsey: Welcome to the Content Strategy Experts Podcast, brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize, and distribute content in an efficient way. In episode 35, we talk about Lightweight DITA and more with Dr. Carlos Evia and Michael Priestley. This is the first of two podcasts featuring these special guests.
In part one of this two-part podcast, Carlos Evia and Michael Priestley talk to Gretyl Kinsey about Lightweight DITA (LwDITA): how it was conceived, the target audience, and the problems they hope it will solve.
Look out for part two on September 10th.
Alan Pringle: Welcome to the Content Strategy Experts Podcast, brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize and distribute content in an efficient way. In episode 31, we discuss use cases for the DITA standard and how its adoption has spread beyond product content. What industries are using DITA and for what kinds of content?
In this podcast, Alan Pringle and Bill Swallow discuss various industries adopting the DITA standard and what kinds of content they produce.
We usually think of DITA as a solution for product-focused content development. More specifically, it’s used for developing customer-facing technical documentation and training content. And, as marketing and technical content have converged to deliver a more unified product content experience, DITA has served that need as well.
But what about content needs beyond products?
00:00 Bill Swallow: Welcome to The Content Strategy Experts podcast brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize and distribute content in an efficient way. In episode 19, we discuss best practices for localizing DITA content.
There are special considerations when localizing DITA content. In this podcast, Bill Swallow and Simon Bate discuss the conventions available in DITA for localization, and share anecdotes and advice to help you circumvent localization problems.
