These guidelines are primarily for information architects who are considering adding to the pool of DITA Specializations. Please add your own suggestions, marking with "Suggestion:" any contributions that you believe the community might need to come to consensus on.

Several categories of information are relevant:

• What a specializer needs to know about modules in DITA
• Where existing modules are catalogued

Some special topics are also provided:

• Whether to use namespaces when specializing