General User Discussions

Free Copies of Adobe(r) Technical Communication Suite(r) at X-Pubs 2008

Forum topic: Submitted by marks on Fri, 2008-06-13 10:33.

Hello!

Adobe(r) Systems have announced that they will be giving away full copies of Adobe Technical Communication Suite (worth £1320 each) at X-Pubs 2008! Chances to win one of them are 1 in 15.

TCS features the full DITA application for FrameMaker, allowing you to create and publish DITA documents to multiple formats, as well as pass them on to Adobe Acrobat(r) to enrich your PDFs with 3D and rich media like Adobe Captivate(r) simulations.

Short Descriptions for Tasks

Forum topic: Submitted by vanwagenenl on Thu, 2008-02-28 20:07.

What is a good short description for a task?

Some of the short descriptions indicated as "good" in the class assignments simply restated information that was in the short description of the related concept. The task's short description may have been written differently and in the imperative, but it was redundant information.

UCSC DITA XML Intro course - assignment 2 - results with comments

Forum topic: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Wed, 2008-02-27 02:36.

Assignment 2: DITA authoring

Materials:

Review the presentation at http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/basics/Priestley_Authoring/
Read section 3.1 of the DITA 1.1 architectural specification:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CS01/archspec/archspec.html
Read the description of <shortdesc> in the DITA 1.1 language specification:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CS01/langspec/langref/shortdesc.html

Assignment:

Using DITA as backend for web-based KB (knowledge base)

Forum topic: Submitted by bohappa on Thu, 2007-06-14 01:27.

I would like to find a DITA-enabled knowledge base that has features like:

Allows users to create content using forms
Supports workflow and role-based data entitlement
Supports taxonomy definition (categories for navigating)
Supports user tagging of content
Search (created and attached content, like files associated with content)
User rating of content

In short, I'd like a Web 2.0 knowledge base that uses DITA as the backend. I'd like to leverage the reuse of DITA and be able to easily deliver it to multiple destinations with less effort.

Conference X-Pubs 2007

Forum topic: Submitted by noz on Thu, 2007-04-12 11:34.

Europe's largest XML Conference X-Pubs (http://www.x-pubs.com) is back a look. Covers XML /DITA / CMS. 2006 was brilliant.

End-users from Bombardier, Schlumberger, BMJ, and the Irish Governement are presenting their stories, AND Michael Priesly (IBM), Steve Manning (Rockley Group), and other experts from IBM, Adobe, PTC Arbortest, XyEntreprise, Mekon, ect.