DITA
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The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides a pre-built data model for authoring and publishing. It was originally developed by IBM for internal use and before it was released to the open-source community. |
DITA consists of a set of design principles for creating modules at a topic level and for using that content in various delivery modes. DITA is well suited to technical documentation groups because it was initially conceived specifically for technical documentation, where content is naturally based around topics rather than narrative. If your content is primarily narrative in nature, DITA may not be the best solution.
DITA also provides for "specialization," allowing you to develop elements of your own that are based on core DITA elements and that still use the working DITA framework for publishing, allowing customization with no changes to the style sheets for publishing.
In DITA, the core information unit is a topic, which describes a single task, concept, or reference item. Topics are long enough to deliver a meaningful subset of structured information, yet short enough not to require customizing each time they are used in a particular context. When reused in different documents, the same topic can therefore appear unchanged under different structural subdivisions. This single sourcing reuse potential has helped drive DITA adoption.
DITA modular topic-based design offers organizations the ability to combine, recombine, and reuse to create online help, printed books, and web-based information.
DITA includes all the stylesheets necessary to publish to various popular output formats (HTML, HTML Help, PDF, Java Help, etc.) from topic-based content.
Organizations using DITA gain the advantages XML offers for information development, among others, it separates the structure of the content, from the form and layout, is an open standard, is extensible—you can add your own tags, and there are great tools available.
The benefits of separating content from its context, in order to make it reusable, are significant – more consistent deliverables, shorter publication cycles, less content to develop/maintain. DITA provides a consistent, overall information architecture that can evolve and grow along with your product or service information needs and delivery modes.
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Philip Vallone, Manager, Technical Documentation, SDI Government Solutions
SDI has been using SiberSafe CMS/CSDB for over 5 years to manage and automate its technical documentation development, maintenance and conversion processes. SDI's business is project-driven and every project comes with its own set of standard compliance requirements. SiberSafe has helped SDI to successfully comply with multiple technical publication standards, including S1000D, MIL-STD-2361 and DITA for our commercial and US DoD clients' projects. SiberSafe has tremendously evolved over the years, helping us meet our diverse project requirements. SiberLogic’s technical support and consulting services have helped us meet the project deadlines in our documentation development and conversion projects.
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News
Zynx Health engages SiberLogic for knowledge management
Dec 10, 2011
Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, engages SiberLogic to help improve and further automate their content and knowledge management business processes.
Ericsson signs an enterprise license agreement for SiberSafe CCMS
Nov 30, 2011
SiberLogic signs an enterprise license agreement for its SiberSafe CCMS with Ericsson, the market leader in telecommunications technology.
Innovatia deploys SiberSafe DITA CMS
Sep 15, 2011
Innovatia deploys SiberSafe DITA CMS in a telecom documentation development project
Miami Air licenses SiberSafe S1000D/DITA CSDB/CMS
May 25, 2011
Miami Air International (http://www.miamiair.com/about.html), the ultimate charter airline committed to the highest standards of safety, reliability, and customer service, licenses SiberSafe S1000D/DITA CSDB/CMS software to manage its maintenance, operations and safety documentation in compliance with the evolving FAA requirements.
SiberSafe XML CMS integrates with oXygen XML Editor
Mar 4, 2011
SiberSafe XML CMS is now tightly integrated with the popular oXygen XML Editor extending it into a complete, cohesive, and cost-effective XML content management environment for technical documentation.
General Dynamics C4 Systems licenses SiberSafe CSDB/CMS S1000D/2361/DITA solution
Sep 1, 2010
SiberSafe CSDB/CMS supporting technical documentation conversion, authoring, publishing and transformation in S1000D, MIL-STD-2361 and DITA technical publication standards.
Pricing for DITA XML CMS Spreadsheet This document contains detailed pricing for different configurations of our DITA solution |
Managing DITA content Whitepaper Benefits and challenges of the DITA content model that can be faced by technical documentation teams dealing with complex, long-lived, and evolving material. |
SiberSafe DITA Edition With XMetaL Integration White Paper Whitepaper This white paper provides a detailed overview of the challenges of DITA and how SiberSafe and XMetaL address them. |
DITA support in SiberSafe Flash Demo Overview of SiberSafe’s support for topic-based content creation and management. |
SiberSafe integration with the FrameMaker Application Pack for DITA, and the DITA Open Toolkit Flash Demo Includes insertion and navigation of conrefs and links from within FrameMaker; and DITA map publication to PDF via the DITA OT with conrefs etc. resolved and rendered. |
SiberSafe/FrameMaker integration Flash Demo See SiberSafe run from FrameMaker to deliver an effective content management environment for technical documentation. |
Authoring with SiberSafe XMetaL Integration Flash Demo Using SiberSafe XMetaL integration allows increasing significantly convenience and effectiveness of authors work. |
SiberSafe DITA Edition Whitepaper This document describes the various features included in SiberSafe's DITA solution |
SiberSafe Styler Datasheet Datasheet Learn how to convert XML into PDF with your distinct branding and look-n-feel without XSLT programming. This datasheet describes the features and benefits of SiberSafe Styler |
WORD ML DITA process flow This document depicts the process flow when using Word ML and Sibersafe for DITA document processing |