I've been involved with structured authoring tools for many years. Until recently, most of those implementations were desktop-based. With the onset of wikis...
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nodyad
Apr 5, 2010 5:07 pm
These annotated citations are from the slide deck that I have shown publicly for IBM's DITA Wiki--the principles apply for a wide range of implementations,...
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darryltewes@...
darryltewes...
Apr 5, 2010 6:27 pm
Thanks for setting up this group. I'm currently using dita2wiki to set up internal collaboration; I look forward to sharing info with other folks similarly...
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nodyad
Apr 5, 2010 7:59 pm
I copied this original post by Allan from dita-users, where I mistakenly placed the root to this thread, and then moved it to this forum. Allan, those are some...
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leeghunter
Apr 5, 2010 7:59 pm
The creation of this group is certainly timely. The people working on the documentation for the Drupal open source CMS have been talking for a while about...
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Janet Swisher
jmswishertx
Apr 5, 2010 9:47 pm
Hi Lee, ... I think the possibilities for a Drupal-DITA mashup are very cool, and I'm glad to see this interest and activity. (Tell Addi I said Hi.) One of the...
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laurensvandenoever
laurensvande...
Apr 6, 2010 3:21 pm
Representing Xopus, the vendor of the XML/DITA editor for non-technical authors, I have a few thoughts to add to Don's answers. The main purpose for a DITA...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 5:14 pm
One of the content types I demoed in the IBM DITA Wiki was an IBM Redbook that was converted into DITA specifically for the demo. Redbooks are typically...
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Morton, Earl D
mortonearl
Apr 6, 2010 5:20 pm
The project I am working on is developing preventive maintenance procedures for thousands of units of factory equipment. We chose to use DITA and XML so we...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 5:27 pm
The white paper collaboration task is very similar to book collaboration (see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-wikis/message/8). In my view, it is...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 5:39 pm
Here are some related links about the "book sprint" process, which is not necessarily wiki-based (but could be): http://www.booksprint.info/ ...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 5:53 pm
Several thought leaders have published ideas on how to use wikis as focal points for unifying the design and documentation work of agile programming teams. No...
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Janet Swisher
jmswishertx
Apr 6, 2010 6:07 pm
... There also this: http://en.flossmanuals.net/booksprints...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 6:24 pm
Hello again, Earl. I recall conversations last year about your use cases at Boeing. One of my goals in these discussions is to tease out best practices for...
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l_j_dyer
Apr 6, 2010 6:39 pm
Here's a white paper (originally published for WikiSym 2008) on the subject of how a products team might author design and requirements information using DITA...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 7:03 pm
Jeff Gardiner asked a good question over in dita-users, but I'd like to answer it here since I alluded to the problem in my original posts. ... That is great...
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Darryl Tewes
darryltewes...
Apr 6, 2010 7:15 pm
Sorry if I replied in the wrong thread as well. I think we'll be seeing this happen for awhile until the new wiki group settles in. From:...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 7:19 pm
Not a problem, Darryl! The topic is clearly a fork and possibly a distraction for the business-as-usual discussions on dita-users. I could also see future...
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nodyad
Apr 6, 2010 7:25 pm
An excellent resource, Lisa. Thanks to you and Anne for making it available! -- Don...
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nodyad
Apr 7, 2010 1:30 pm
One class of wiki software out there (TiddlyWiki for example) supports the full function of a wiki locally to your machine. This makes sense for someone who...
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nodyad
Apr 7, 2010 5:56 pm
Several wiki-hosting sites focus their services on hosting social groups that are dedicated to common interests, such as fan pages, hobby pages, movie...
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nodyad
Apr 7, 2010 7:49 pm
After this post, I'll hold off seeding ideas for a bit and see if anyone has additional use cases or elaborations on those that have been mentioned already. ...
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Darryl Tewes
darryltewes...
Apr 8, 2010 2:45 pm
Not sure if you want to consider this as a separate use case, or possibly split into multiple use cases. This is the approach that I am most interested in at...
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despopoulos_chriss
despopoulos_...
Apr 8, 2010 2:51 pm
I fully support this use case, but I want to amplify it in one sense... I think we're not far off from the notion of desktop applications simply going away....
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Darryl Tewes
darryltewes...
Apr 8, 2010 3:02 pm
Hi Don - I'm coming from an enterprise technical content background, but one of my recent areas of interest is looking at online 'communities of practice' to ...
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Tony Chung
tonychun9
Apr 8, 2010 5:44 pm
Sorry for the long post. I started a "me too" response that turned into a brainstorming session. I love wiki, especially for journalling. Daily wiki entries...
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dita4all
Apr 9, 2010 12:23 pm
Use cases for DEW (DITA Enhanced Wiki) for creating Retrofit Instructions: As a Subject Matter Expert I want check lists to help ensure I do not forget...
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dita4all
Apr 9, 2010 12:23 pm
Sorry for the long post - I did not have time to write a short one. There is a huge variety of types of release notes: some fit on a single page, others...
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dita4all
Apr 9, 2010 12:26 pm
This is a great idea for a Group, Don, bursting with possibilities. I suggest "DITA Enhanced Wikis" as a name for the group, and suggest DEW as an acronym for...
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dita4all
Apr 9, 2010 12:26 pm
This is just trying to think of a new, off the beaten track, application area for DEWs (DITA Enhanced Wikis). Meetings can be useful but can consume an...
