Introduction to DITA

Introduction to DITA

Docs Team @ Jive

Leona B. Campbell and Melanie Jennings

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Leona Campbell, [email protected],

@runleonarun

Melanie Jennings, [email protected],

@seniortechwritr

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What is DITA and why use it?


Authoring and Publishing Challenges


How can DITA help?

• Cheap to get started

• Automate and Specialize OOTB

• Keep costs down if you invest

some time

• Comes with an active community

you can use

Building Help with DITA is like building a snowperson.

Automating and specializing output, while

keeping costs down.

Build & Automation Challenges


Can you really have it all?

With DITA, you can make beautiful Help and serve it up however your audience wants it.

DITA output is made-to-order!

Output Challenges

Example: Toolkit Sample Walk-

through in Oxygen


Do I need:

• To spend less time formatting?

• To publish many versions, audiences, platforms, etc?

• To publish in many formats (HTML5, ePub, webhelp with feedback, PDF, etc.)?

• To provide in-product Help content?

• To translate all of this?

• An awesome, scalable solution?

Do I Need DITA? A Quiz!


• Dita.xml.org

• Yahoo DITA users group (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/info)

• DITA Awareness Group or PDX DITA on LinkedIn

• PDX DITA group and website: pdxdita.ditamap.com

• Oxygen Support

• Call, tweet, or email us

Some recommended books:

• DITA Best Practices by Laura Bellamy

• DITA 101 by Ann Rockley

• DITA for Print by Leigh White

Learn More about DITA

Q & A

Leona Campbell,

[email protected],

@runleonarun

Melanie Jennings,

[email protected]

m, @seniortechwritr

