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Capabilities of DITA

• About DITA
• History of DITA
• Supported output formats
  • DITA and wikis
• Supported languages
• Introduction to specialization
• Topic-based authoring

Setting up DITA

• Getting started
• Getting started as cheaply as possible
• Resources for Beginners
• Migrating legacy content
• Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
• Setting up stylesheets and a publishing system
• Setting up the Eclipse Help Infocenter for publishing DITA content
• About authoring tools
• About storing and managing content
• File and folder naming
• Utilities

Working with DITA

• Writing DITA topics
• Working with maps
• Working with images
• Working with content references (conref)
• Working with links
• Working with conditional text
• Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• Optimizing DITA for Translations
• Stem sentences
• Myths about technical writing
• Developing reuse strategies
• Math Domain

The DITA Open Toolkit

• The DITA Open Toolkit
• Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
• Installing OT on the Mac
• Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• Plugins for the DITA Open Toolkit
• About Plugins
• Plans for future versions of the DITA Open Toolkit
• Plans for the DITA Open Toolkit PDF2 Plug-in

DITA Community

• List of organizations using DITA
• List of speakers for DITA presentations
• DITA user groups
• DITA Conferences
• Blogroll
• Testimonials for DITA 1.2 Implementation
• HAWEBS.NET  - DITA Community (Simplified Chinese)

The Business Case for DITA

• Making the Business Case for DITA
• Is content management important?
• Is structure important?
• Is content reuse important?
• Is single-sourcing important?
• Is translation important?
• Do you markup your content?
• Is your content modular?
• Is your content conditional?
• Is your content task-oriented and minimalist?
• Is standardization important?
• What is your DITA Quotient (D.Q.)?

The DITA Maturity Model

• About the DITA Maturity Model Community
  
  • Introduction to the Maturity Model
  • Level One: Topics
  • Level Two: Scaleable Reuse
  • Level Three: Specialization and customization
  • Level Four: Automation and integration
  • Level Five: Semantics on Demand
  • Level Six: Universal semantic ecosystem
  • DITA Maturity Model Reference Table
• Usage and Copyright Information
• Resources for Beginners with the DMM
  • DITA Maturity Model Q&A

DITA Specializations Development

• Introduction to Specializations
• Guidelines for Specializers
• Troubleshooting specialization
• Training specialization
• OASIS DITA specialization subcommittees

DITA Standards Development

• DITA language reference 1.1
• DITA architectural specification 1.1
• DITA for Technical Standards (DTS)
• DITA 1.1 versus 1.0
• DITA Standard Milestones
• About the OASIS DITA Technical Committee and Subcommittees
• OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
• Suggesting enhancements to the DITA Standard and Toolkit
• DITA 1.2 Specification - Building Specification Subsets

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