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Minutes of the OASIS DITA TC
Tuesday, 3 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, Stan Doherty, Kristen Eberlein, Nancy Harrison, Bob Johnson, Zoe Lawson, Christina Rothwell, Leroy Steinbacher, Dawn Stevens, Frank Wegmann
Business
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Regrets: Eliot Kimber, Scott Hudson,
1. Minutes
24 February 2026 (Harrison, 03 March 2026)
https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/dita-tc-minutes-24-february-2026-uploaded
- Kris moved, 2nd leroy, approved by TC
2. Announcements
- Frank; presenting at Nordik Tech Comm March 19-20, speaking on 'When Medtadata Governs the Documentation Lifecycle'
- Dawn; wrt ConVex in Pittsburgh, we have good attendance projected - probably around 275? We're planning opening session to focus on 20 years of DITA, including a song (!)
3. Committee notes effort (No 02-24 updates)
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
- Stan; sent out mail to folks; have heard back from some, hopefully, will have more to report next week.
- Zoe; not available yet, but starting to see the light at end of tunnel.
4. Continued discussion of how DITA TC members are using AI
- Kris; doing more testing on having Copilot write alt-text for writing descriptions for medical images; if the image has captions, it uses python to suggest text, so it's very helpful. It seems like a really good way to add alt-text for images.
- Bob; does Mayo translate its images?
- Kris; yes; Mayo translates content to over 35 languages, though many are just one-offs. We translate all public-facing content to Arabic, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish; also we translate all internal-facing patient info to Spanish. We're trying to figure out how to handle that, to make more content available in more languages.
- Bob; I wondered because you said there's text in the images.
- Kris; yes, in a lot of them, because its old content and no one needed it to live outside the image originally.
- Bob; so there's no text stored outside those figures.
- Kris; not for the old content, and also there are many different groups at Mayo, and they all treat, and describe, images differently. So e.g., there are four writing groups, and each one uses the term 'caption' to mean a different part of the image.
close 11:16 am ET
-- Ms. Nancy Harrison
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Nancy Harrison
Principal, Infobridge Solutions
Nancy Harrison (Personal)
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