Hi Scott,
We do have a specializations page on dita.xml.org for this
very purpose. I wonder if you might place the note about the nuclear industry
there. I believe that very few if any have included specializations in the focus
area. The TC should encourage the practice. Perhaps it requires some outreach to
work.
Thanks for the information,
JoAnn
As a member of the DITA Adoption
TC, I think the Adoption TC would be quite interested in tracking DITA
specializations, formally or informally, in the industry at large. It
could also host the information at dita.xml.org.
Regards,
Scott Tsao 曹壽國
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Architect - Associate Technical Fellow
The Boeing Company
Original Message-----
From: Ogden, Jeff
[mailto:jogden@ptc.com]
Sent: Thursday,
November 06, 2008 9:18 AM
To: Eliot Kimber; dita
Subject: RE: [dita] DITA
goes Nuclear?
Eliot, I agree with the comments from both of your e-mails
on this topic.
Is there a good place for people and organizations to
informally share new specializations? Part of the DITA area on
xml.org? That might be a way to encourage sharing of DITA specializations
that are not formally standardized. It might be a good way to share early
versions of new specializations before they become standardized as
well.
If the specializations don't need to be formally standardized,
would the DITA Adoption TC be a better forum for encouraging this sort of thing
than the DITA TC with its focus on standards development?
-Jeff
>
Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber
[mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
> Sent:
Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:05 PM
> To: dita
> Subject: Re:
[dita] DITA goes Nuclear?
>
> On 11/4/08 5:01 PM, "Eliot Kimber"
<ekimber@reallysi.com> wrote:
>
> > On 11/4/08 3:10 PM,
"Robert D Anderson" <robander@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
>
>> So - is there anybody on the TC interested in working on a
>
specialization
> >> for the nuclear industry? If so, we can set up a
subcommittee to
start
> work
> >> based on what has already
been done. If so, please send a note
briefly
> >> describing your
interest level (observer vs active participant). If
> you'd
>
>> rather not send directly to the list at this point, you can send
to
me
> and
> >> I'll collect responses; if you do that,
please also copy Don Day,
as
> I'll
> >> be offline some of
the next week and want to be sure I don't miss
any
> >>
notes.
> >
> > While I'm sure such a specialization is quite
valuable and it's
exciting
> to
> > see this type of activity
happening, I worry that we are starting to
set
> a
> >
precedent by which every community of interest that might find DITA
>
useful
> > wants to be a subcommittee.
> >
> > I
don't think that's either necessary or productive in the long run.
> DITA
is
> > expressly designed to enable unilateral extension that does not
need
to
> be
> > coordinated with the base standard in order
to be both reliably
> > interchangeable and potentially useful as a
standard in its own
right.
> >
> > There's absolutely no
reason that something like a nuclear industry
> > specialization
couldn't be developed as a completely separate effort
> within
>
> whatever standards community serves the nuclear power
industry.
>
> Michael Priestly pointed out privately that there
might be communities
of
> interest that do not have an existing
standards-making body that could
> host a DITA specialization standard, in
which case the DITA TC would
> be a natural home. I agree
completely.
>
> My main intent is that it's clear to the DITA
community at large that
> standardization within the DITA TC is not a
*requirement* for
standardized
> DITA specialization, nor is
standardization within OASIS a
requirement.
>
> For example, if
the Air Transport Association wanted to define an
>
aircraft-industry-specific set of specializations, it would make
sense
for
> the ATA to host that activity--no need for it to be done
under the TC
just
> because it happens to be a DITA-based XML
application.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>
>
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