Getting information (general)

dita.xml.org: Official DITA community gathering place and information resource for the DITA OASIS Standard

Includes a knowledge base, a wiki, news items about DITA, events, products and services, case studies, user groups, forums, blogs, and a resource directory.

Hosted by OASIS.

Cover Pages: Articles, presentations, and facts about DITA

Hosted by OASIS.

IBM site containing a collection of information about DITA

Download site for the Toolkit and related/prerequisite software

alphaWorks IBM TaskModeler: An Eclipse-based tool for rapidly creating and analyzing models of human activity for DITA and user experience design

IBM download site: Collection of downloads of older releases of the Toolkit

Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture

Book (level: beginner). Authors: Jennifer Linton and Kylene Bruski. Publisher: Comtech Services, Colorado, 2006. Task-oriented approach to learning DITA. Authored using DITA markup and methodology in a variety of XML editors. Published using the Blast Radius and Mekon FrameMaker plug-in in the DITA 1.2 Open Toolkit.

Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture

Article (level: beginner). Authors: Eric Hennum, Don Day, John Hunt, and Dave Schell. Publisher: IBM, updated September 2005. Roadmap for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture: what it is and how it applies to technical documentation. Also a product of the architecture, having been written entirely in XML and produced using the principles described.

Design patterns for information architecture with DITA map domains

Article (level: intermediate). Authors: Eric Hennum, Don Day, John Hunt, and Dave Schell. Publisher: IBM, updated September 2005. Explains the design technique for creating a DITA map domain.

An XML-based information architecture for learning content

Part 1: A DITA specialization design. Article (level: intermediate). Authors: Robert Bernard and John P. Hunt. Publisher: IBM, August 2005. How topic-based DITA XML can provide the basis for developing an information architecture for single-sourced XML learning content.

List of DITA consultants

DITA 1.1 standard

Specification overview.

Roadmap for DITA development

Lists of proposed and committed features for future releases.

Current DITA Open Toolkit release

Bugs, support requests, patches, feature requests.

OASIS DITA Open Toolkit project home

OASIS DITA Open Toolkit 1.3.1 features and issues tracking

DITA Open Toolkit developers mailing list

DITA 1.1 proposed features

DITA 1.1 work items

OASIS DITA standards committee website

OASIS DITA Language Specification version 1.0

OASIS Standard, 09 May 2005.

OASIS DITA Architecture Specification version 1.1

OASIS Committee Draft, 13 February 2007.

OASIS DITA Language Specification version 1.1

OASIS Committee Draft, 13 February 2007.

Apache Derby documentation

Apache Derby, an Apache database subproject, is a relational database implemented entirely in Java, and available under the Apache license, version 2.0. The Derby documentation manuals are sourced in DITA.

For an overview of the documentation, see http://db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html.

For the DITA source files, see http://db.apache.org/derby/manuals/dita.html.

Forum for DITA questions and discussion

Forum for Adobe FrameMaker/DITA questions

List of DITA user and interest groups (by location)

DITA forums on sourceforge.net (there are three forums: developers, help, and open discussion)

Content Management Strategies 2007

Date: March 26-28. Boston, MA. Conference organizer: Center for Information Development Management (CIDM).

XTech 2006

Date: May 15-18. Location: Paris. XTech 2007 is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. Focus: The theme is “The Ubiquitous Web."

X-Pubs 2007

Date: June 4-5. Location: Reading, UK. Focus: The theme is “How did they do it?”

DITA 2007

Date: October 6. Location: Raleigh, NC. DITA 2007. (This is the DITA East conference. DITA West was held in February in San Jose, CA.) Conference organizer: Bright Path Solutions.

XML 2007

Date: December 3-5. Location: Boston. Audience: Those who want to use XML and related technologies.