Comments on: DITA Becomes a Standard (Now What Is It Exactly?) http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2005/06/05/dita-becomes-a-standard-now-what-is-it-exactly/ Adventures in web and mobile globalization Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Don Dayhttp://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2005/06/05/dita-becomes-a-standard-now-what-is-it-exactly/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Don Day Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:25:11 +0000 http://globalbydesign.com/2005/06/05/dita-becomes-a-standard-now-what-is-it-exactly/#comment-41 Regarding this comment: "I'll know more when I see some real-world success stories, of which there are none as of yet. But I'm sure the folks at Idiom and Arbortext are writing up their case studies as we speak." Within the compendium of published DITA resources you cited at http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html, I'll point out that you can find case studies from IBM (Michael Priestley, Susan Carpenter, Ian Larner), Ixiasoft (France Baril), Nokia, and others. In fact, among the references is a Gilbane whitepaper commissioned by Idiom about their work with IBI on a DITA implementation. Also there are links to a series of Arbortext articles which examine DITA from a vendor's point of view. More case studies should be forthcoming once new adopters start to get firm experience with using a topic-oriented writing discipline. Because DITA is scaleable from individual and SMB levels of use on up to enterprise, everyone in this chain of users can exchange data interoperably. This makes a lot of sense for delivering component-level documentation that integrates into larger products or deliverables, or that is shared among same-interest communities. -- Don Day Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee IBM Lead DITA Architect Regarding this comment: “I’ll know more when I see some real-world success stories, of which there are none as of yet. But I’m sure the folks at Idiom and Arbortext are writing up their case studies as we speak.”

Within the compendium of published DITA resources you cited at http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html, I’ll point out that you can find case studies from IBM (Michael Priestley, Susan Carpenter, Ian Larner), Ixiasoft (France Baril), Nokia, and others. In fact, among the references is a Gilbane whitepaper commissioned by Idiom about their work with IBI on a DITA implementation. Also there are links to a series of Arbortext articles which examine DITA from a vendor’s point of view. More case studies should be forthcoming once new adopters start to get firm experience with using a topic-oriented writing discipline.

Because DITA is scaleable from individual and SMB levels of use on up to enterprise, everyone in this chain of users can exchange data interoperably. This makes a lot of sense for delivering component-level documentation that integrates into larger products or deliverables, or that is shared among same-interest communities.

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Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect

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