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Minutes of the OASIS DITA TC
Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Recorded by Nancy Harrison
link to agenda for this meeting:
https://github.com/oasis-tcs/dita/wiki/Previous-agendas
Attendance:
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Robert Anderson, Kristen Eberlein, Nancy Harrison, Scott Hudson, Bob Johnson, Eric Sirois, Leroy Steinbacher, Frank Wegmann
Business
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Regrets: Christina Rothwell
1. Minutes
17 March 2026 (Harrison, 24 March 2026)
https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/dita-tc-minutes-17-march-2026-uploaded
- Kris moved, 2nd Leroy, approved by TC
2. Announcements; none
3. report back from Nordic TechComm conf (Frank)
- Frank; was quite large, 100 people (fully booked), first day 1 track, 2nd day 2 tracks; small but cozy venue, I only knew a couple of people, both had their own presentation; I presented on how metadate can automate production. Some presentation on hardware, others on upcoming EU regs. One was a security engineer on docs for Parliament, they have a huge amt of docs, some stuff on AI, as well as from lang. and translation industry..
- Leroy; worked with Dipo when we were both working together
- Frank; he spoke on 'Ins and outs of doing DITA with structured authoring.'
- Kris; you mentioned digital product passport; fits with metadata; gives tech frame for what metadata needs to go into digital passport, how to put it in.
- Nancy; is it something that has to accompany a product when it goes between contries?
- Frank; don't know a lot, just know it has to go with the docs. don't know how it's handled or distributed. DPP
- Kris; did folks have sense of why attendance was high? It's regularly ~60, this year 100?
- Frank; not sure; I'll ask the Tekom folks, who organize it.
- Leroy; what about S1000D standard?
- Frank; there was a basic presentation about it, some of the lingo, some folks in audience who were familiar with it; nothing besides that.
- Leroy; is it still in development, or has it been stable for awhile?
- Frank; it's been maintained for a very long time, it's for aircraft. now on issue 5.? It's very complex, you need to have a CMS to really do it.
- Bob; we had someone present on that in Boston DUG, should be able to find that presentation on the web page. I was at a similar conferennce to ConVex, but for S1000D, in 2023, there were many diff stakeholders involved, system vendors, customers, airlines, government, military....
- Leroy; I'm curious about whether it's being adopted in new groups, or mostly folks who've been using it forever?
- Bob; if you're in aviation, esp as a mfr, you'd have to be in it. legally.
- Kris; if you're producing machinery for these industries, you couldn't not be doing this. so there are no new adopters
4. Committee notes effort
Committee Notes.
https://github.com/oasis-tcs/dita/wiki/DITA-TC-Committee-Notes Updated description of mission
https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/updated-mission-description
- Kris; any updates?
- Leroy; I've been emailing Stan, we'll meet later today to discuss some questions. when I joined the TC, there were instructions on how to use our repo. also wondering, where do we publish this content?
- Kris; typically, we use standard Git processes, folks have their own repos, build content in that, then open a pull request to main DITA repo, we have a separate repo for CNs,. separate from specs.
- Leroy; who is hosting this content?
- Kris; it's always thru OASIS, CNs are on a diff work track from specs, but they're still published on OASIS's website, with OASIS styling, HTML and PDF in addition to DITA source. It's been a while since we touched our stylesheets for CNs, though we'll probably need to bring them forward to use new DITA-OT, and make sure OASIS hasn't changed their styles since we built ours.
- Leroy; where do they live in Git? I couldn't find them.
- Kris; yes, there;s another repo for their stylesheets.
- Leroy; I'd be happy to help with updating stylesheets
- Kris; Robert, anything to add?
- Robert; not much, actually, they seem to work out of the box,
- Kris; our stylesheets for our various outputs are relatively clean.
- Robert; we do have some OASIS-specific page linking, will have to be checked.
- Kris; for CNs as well as spec?
- Robert; not sure, may work just fine, just needs to be tested.
- Leroy; can you share the link to those plugins with me?
- Robert; sure
close 11:30 am Et
-- Ms. Nancy Harrison
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Nancy Harrison
Principal, Infobridge Solutions
Nancy Harrison (Personal)
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