[CMS-PR] DITA Newsletter 1.2
Bob Doyle
editor at cmsreview.com
Tue Sep 4 17:28:39 EDT 2007
DITA Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 2, September, 2007
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*Features in this issue (see the web version at
www.ditanewsletter.com)*
- *DITA User Group Meetings <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#meetings>*
- *Don Day's Open Toolkit Resources
Page<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#toolkit>
*
- *Apache FOP 0.94 released <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#fop>*
- *SecondLife DITA Island First
Meeting<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#secondlife>- September 4
*
- *KM World Magazine Names DITA
Trend-Setters<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#kmworld>
*
- *Idiom Technologies Releases WorldServer
9<http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#idiom>
*
- *Do You Blog on DITA? <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#blog>*
- *Upcoming DITA Events <http://www.ditanewsletter.com/#upcoming>*
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*DITA User Group Meetings*
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*Boston DITA User Group <http://dita.xml.org/boston/>, September 10*
*Topic:* Content Migration with DITA at PTC <http://www.ptc.com/>
PTC will tell us how they migrated corporate documentation to DITA
following the acquisition last year of Arbortext. This presentation
will present a case study of how and why PTC's technical writers
changed their process and learned new skills leveraging XML, DITA, and
Content Management.
*Speakers:* Jay Dupont, Product Manager, and Paula Ploetz, Senior Technical
Writer, PTC
*Date:* Monday, September 10, 2007 @ 6:30-8:30 pm EDT
The meeting starts with light snacks and networking at 6:30PM.
The presentation starts at 7PM.
We meet at PTC Headquarters in Needham, MA
140 Kendrick St
Needham, MA 02494
Please RSVP to editor at cmsreview.com
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*Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group <http://svdig.ditamap.com/>, September
12*
*Topic:* Making the most of DITA Users.org <http://www.ditausers.org/> (and
a tour of the DITA Infocenter <http://www.ditainfocenter.com/> and
DITA Wiki<http://www.ditawiki.org/>
).
*Speaker:* Bob Doyle, Founder of DITA Users <http://www.ditausers.org/>,
President and CEO of skyBuilders <http://www.skybuilders.com/>, (and many
others).
*Date:* Wednesday, September 12, 2007 @ 7:00-9:00 pm PDT
*Location:* NetAppliance. 495 E. Java Drive
Bldg 3, Santa Cruz conference room
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(Google Map<http://local.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=495+E+Java+Drive,+Sunnyvale,+CA+94089&ll=37.457963,-121.996307&spn=0.166242,0.545883&om=1>
)
*Meet promptly at 7:00PM in the lobby to be escorted in. Jim Bond will be
our official NetAppliance escort.*
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Watch the DITA.XML.org User Groups
page<http://dita.xml.org/wiki-user-groups>for future meetings.
[image: The online community for the DITA Standard] <http://dita.xml.org/>
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*Don Day's New Open Toolkit Resources Page*
Don Day, chairman of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, has created a
resources page with tips for Open Toolkit
users<http://www.ditaopentoolkit.org/>.
Don describes package download options and plugin downloads.
While editing Wikipedia pages on DITA, Bob Doyle created a DITA Open Toolkit
Wikipedia page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DITA_Open_Toolkit>, which
points to Don's new page.
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*Apache FOP 0.94 released*
The Apache XML Graphics team announced the release of Apache FOP version
0.94.
This is the second production-level release after a big re-design effort. It
includes many bug fixes and new features, the most important being:
- auto-detection of the fonts installed on the system; the XML metrics
generation is now optional
- support for the collapsing-border model in tables;
- internal links in PDF now point to the exact location, and not to
the top of the page;
- support for UAX#14 type line breaking. This annex of the Unicode
standard specifies rules for breaking text into lines depending on the
language used.
The complete list of changes is available at
Apache.org<http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/changes_0.94.html>
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*SecondLife DITA Island First meeting September 4*
Consider joining SecondLife, getting yourself an avatar, and attending these
virtual meetings of DITA enthusiasts organized by DITA Technical Committee
member Christian Kravogel.
We can talk to one another using VoIP on his DITA Island in SecondLife. All
you need is a good headset with boom microphone for free conversation with
DITA users all over the real world.
Chris holds regular meetings Tuesdays on SecondLife.
You will need to take four tutorials in the orientation center that train
you to walk around - and fly around! Then you can teleport to DITA Island
and the DITA conference center with a large screen display showing
presentations on DITA.
Tuesday 4th to Wednesday 5th at
9:00 - 10:00 pm PT/PDT
12:00 - 1:00 am ET/EDT (midnight)
6:00 - 7:00 am CET/CEDT (early morning)
SIM Address at Secondlife: DITA (185, 132, 27)
Or send an IM to the Chris' avatar: Seico Flanagan
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*KM World Magazine <http://www.kmworld.com/> Names Four DITA-related
"Trend-Setting
Products of 2007<http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=37332>
"*
In the annual roundup of top products for content, document, and knowledge
management, KM World includes these vendors who work with DITA.
- *Astoria <http://www.astoriasoftware.com/> Astoria On-Demand* —
delivers solutions that leverage and extend XML-based, DITA-compliant
content management for dynamic publishing.
- *DocZone <http://www.doczone.com/>* — hosted XML content management
and single-source publishing solution.
- *PTC <http://www.ptc.com/> Arbortext*—enterprise publishing software
supporting the entire enterprise publishing process, from creation through
delivery.
- *XyEnterprise <http://www.xyenterprise.com/> Contenta*—manages the
life cycle of creating, maintaining and delivering content through multiple
channels; users can dynamically create, reuse, manage and assemble
multilingual XML content and documents.
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*Idiom(r) Technologies Releases WorldServer™ 9*
With WorldServer 9, Idiom focused on several key areas: Quality and
Collaboration, Global Terminology Lifecycle Management, TransPort, and
Machine Translation Integration. Additionally, several TM and Usability
enhancements were implemented.
WorldServer 9 leverages full workflow functionality, along with a new UI and
term status tracking, to manage the complete global terminology lifecycle
from adding new terms, approving terms, and possible term deprecation.
WorldServer 9 introduces WorldServer TransPort, a next-generation
translation portal that replaces WorldServer ServiceDesk.
WorldServer 9 provides tight integration between various machine translation
systems and WorldServer. The results from the machine translation engine
seamlessly flow into scoping, costing, and translation.
Idiom offers a webinar - WorldServer 9: New Features and Functionality - on
Wednesday, September 12th, by Andrew Thomas, Enterprise Product
Manager. Register
now<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=uipjdecab.0.0.zjblqubab.0&p=https%3A%2F%2Fidiomevents.webex.com%2Fidiomevents%2Fonstage%2Fg.php%3Fp%3D8%26t%3Dm>
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*Do You Blog on DITA?*
We recently added Katriel Reichman's Accelerated
Authoring<http://methodm.com/blog/category/dita/>blog and Eric
Armstrong's Cool
Stuff <http://blogs.sun.com/coolstuff/> blog to our blogroll at DITA
Blog<http://www.ditablog.com/>.
We also added them to the bloggers that get aggregated on the home page of DITA
News <http://www.ditanews.com/>.
If you blog on DITA, we would like to add you as well.
Please send us a URL to your DITA Blog (editor at
cmsreview.com<editor at cmsreview.com>).
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*Upcoming DITA Events*
*September 17-19, 2007*
*JoAnn Hackos will hold her 9th Annual Best Practices Conference, in Atlanta
Georgia.*
The focus is on content created with company blogs, wikis, and listservs, in
addition to the normal documentation and help centers. Customers are finding
more things about companies from Google searches than from authorized web
portals. Find out how to get the new collaboratively created content under
control.
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/bestpractices/2007/index.htm
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>contact Lovonya
Thomas at
lovonya at comtech-serv.com to receive a 10% member discount.
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*October 2-3, 2007*
*JoAnn Hackos Workshop on Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use, in
Austin, TX.*
Information developers everywhere are being told to cut the volume, reduce
costs for translation, make information more easily accessible, and provide
only what audiences need to know. The Minimalism workshop gives you specific
guidelines for evaluating your information and making the right decisions to
reduce the volume. But the Minimalism workshop is not about cutting the
verbiage alone. We focus on what readers really need to know. Taught by Bill
Gearhart <http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/instructors.shtml#bgearhart>.
http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml or call 303-232-7586.
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>contact Lovonya
Thomas at
lovonya at comtech-serv.com to receive a 10% member discount.
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*October 4-6, 2007*
*DITA East 2007, in Raleigh, North Carolina.*
DITA 2007™-East, the third BrightPath North American conference of DITA
users, brings together experts from around the globe for a conference
designed to help attendees leverage the power of the Darwin Information
Typing Architecture OASIS Standard.
http://www.travelthepath.com/conf/ditaeast.shtml
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>receive a 10% member
registration discount using code DITA USERS.
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*October 9-10, 2007*
*Managing Your Documentation Projects, in Golden, Colorado.*
How will we meet the deadline for the project? Our staff is stretched to the
limit. Can we maintain our quality standards without stressing everyone? The
Managing Documentation Projects workshop gives you the tools to maintain
your sanity and still get the work done.
Information planning, resource and schedule estimating, project tracking,
and content planning activities in the workshop give you the information you
need to communicate with management and define a documentation project that
meets deadlines, maintains quality, and works within resource constraints.
Taught by Bill Gearhart<http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/instructors.shtml#bgearhart>and
Bill
Hackos <http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/instructors.shtml#bill>.
http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml or call 303-232-7586.
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>contact Lovonya
Thomas at
lovonya at comtech-serv.com to receive a 10% member discount.
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*October 16-20, 2007*
*DocTrain East 2007 in Lowell, Massachusetts.*
The theme of the 8th Annual Documentation & Training East Conference is
Advancing Your Career. The event is designed to help you improve the skills
and expertise you'll need to future proof your career and improve your value
as a professional technical communicator.
Register today<http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1195&EID=1608>
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>contact Eileen
Savary at
lovonya at comtech-serv.com <info at doctrain.com> (or call +1 978-649-8555) to
receive a $200 member discount for new registrations before September 17.
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*October 22-26, 2007*
*JoAnn Hackos will hold her DITA Boot Camp in Wakefield, Massachusetts.*
Hosted by XyEnterprise <http://www.xyenterprise.com/>
In the DITA Boot Camp program you'll get the core values of
- Structured Authoring
- Information Modeling
- Minimalism
- Business process change
- DITA details and implementation
This workshop includes a complimentary copy of the *Introduction to
DITA<http://www.comtech-serv.com/dita.shtml#book>:
A Basic User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture* book.
Taught by JoAnn
Hackos<http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/instructors.shtml#joann>.
DITA Users members
<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>contact Lovonya
Thomas at
lovonya at comtech-serv.com to receive a 10% member discount.
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See the *DITA News Events
Calendar*<http://www.ditanews.com/events/calendar/>for more events.
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*About DITA Newsletter*
DITA Newsletter is published by DITA News, one of a network of websites in
support of DITA. It will be available online at www.ditanewsletter.com.
Each of our websites is optimized for some community-oriented function.
*DITA Users* - helping members get started with topic-based authoring using
a web-based editor (DITA Storm <http://www.ditastorm.com/>), the Open
Toolkit on the server, a personal workspace folder on the web, and a private
member directory to locate other DITA Users.
ditausers.org <http://www.ditausers.org/>
*DITA Infocenter* - the DITA architectural and language specifications, and
the OT User Guide, in an Eclipse Help format.
ditainfocenter.com <http://www.ditainfocenter.com/>
*DITA News* - a blog aggregator, a mailing list, and this newsletter on
DITA.
ditanews.com <http://www.ditanews.com/>
*DITA Blog* - a group blog for DITA information developers (based on
WordPress).
ditablog.com <http://www.ditablog.com/>
*DITA Wiki* - over 600 pages of resources in a format that encourages
comments and discussions (based on MediaWiki).
ditawiki.org <http://www.ditawiki.org/>
and a couple of other sites to come soon, including
*DITA Tutor* - a set of self-paced and instructor-led DITA Tutorials (based
on a Moodle LMS)
ditatutor.com <http://www.ditatutor.com/>
Please consider joining DITA
Users<http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/>today.
Membership is $100USD/year. Discounts on DITA conferences and
workshops more than offset the annual membership fee
http://www.ditausers.org/membership/how_to_join/
--
Bob Doyle
Editor In Chief, CMS Review - http://www.cmsreview.com
Founder, DITA Users - http://www.ditausers.org
Former Technology Advisor, CM Pros -
http://www.cmprofessionals.org/membership/cm-profiles/bob-doyle
Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine -
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleIndex.aspx?ContextSubtypeID=71
President and CEO, skyBuilders - http://www.skybuilders.com
77 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: +1 617-876-5676 Skype:bobdoyle
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