Lightweight DITA SC

  • 1.  Minutes from Feb 9th 2015

    Posted 02-23-2015 02:19
    My notes are pretty minimal - apologies, and I promise to remember to ask for volunteers next time! I have several todos below, none of which I have been able to accomplish in the last two weeks. Again I apologize, and I aim to do better in the next two. My notes from last meeting: Status review for industry focus areas: ------------- learning and training - john, amber, scott, birgit         use cases - 4 categories                 public school education - us k-12                 higher education - very interested in more input from professors on call - carlos interested                 corporate training                 educational publishing                 machine industries - sissi, jang         jang has to focus on paying work at the moment         sissi willing to continue work - michael p to meet with her and review past work, next steps software development - me, stan doherty, others on specific streams         use cases - 3 categories                 technical writer and developer collaboration - (focus on api documentation, agile development requirements) - carlos interested in this stream                 upstream requirements and specifications - including traceability of requirements to content - aaron interested in this stream                 technical writer and support collaboration - amber interested in this stream assuming it starts later in year                         look for intel presentation on this at dita north america conference marketing and ecommerce (new, split off from software development         noz, me, don day, amber for first mtg         michael p to set up mtg with them to follow on -- Discussion of lightweight DITA mappings         markdown mapping in progress         need for json mapping? easydita has "better web help" project on github that uses json/html5 mapping for dita don has conversion as part of expedita problems: json doesn't have representation of attributes on elements don developed a partial transform to json for citrix's interactive training - included titles, shortdesc, etc.but not full content there are json-based databases out there, including ones used for dita storage - again, easydita? Mappings we are likely to need (to/from lightweight dita): xml html5 markdown json epub3? Goal is to share tables as dita documents for now -- Additional discussion don would like marketing examples from within ibm         michael p to explore carlos:         consider companies at virginia tech for pilots of lightweight dita         can put out rfp essentially for them to respond         as part of training for them to develop their docs etc. --- Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Enterprise Content Technology Strategist mpriestl@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley