Prototype of a collaboration platform for Community driven documentation in DITA

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Uploaded by on Sep 19, 2010

In this video I explore a couple of tools and design decisions that we are making for the DITA documentation distribution we are building in Drupal.

I talk about:
-Translating DITA into a field structure
-XML WYSIWYG editor
-Bookmarklet for submission of related content
-Building DITA maps in a drag & drop UI

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  • When I talked about 'narrowly curated systems' I meant it as a compliment.

    I know that DITA has plenty of ways to handle references, what I try to do is make it more accessible to an average community contributor without training. For that you need really simple widgets, even a WYSIWYG might be too hard, the detail level is too high.

    Doing things with a CMS interface (like Drupal) also helps you reduce the complexity and effort needed to create associations between topics (e.g. through tags)

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  • Overall very interesting video.

    At 2:20 you make a comment about DITA links being designed for 'narrowly created systems'. This is untrue. Besides the fact you can enter standard web references, you can add xrefs to any filetype, you even have a 'scope' attribute to help you classify links to be able to selectively process them.

    With the form: xref scope="external" href="linktoanything" you can place any link at any point where xref is valid, not only in related links.

  • Very intriguing demo / protoype. We have several Drupal projects in our team, and have been investigating ways to incorporate DITA with the Drupal framework. Do you have additional information you can share?

  • Just saw your video. Great stuff !

    We're also using Drupal in our company to store some training catalogues and would like to follow your steps as well as embracing DITA and all the related tools+technology. I'll show your video to the other people in the Team and see if that's a possibility for us. How much knowledge are you willing to share with me regarding this project ?

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