1st Edition

Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA

By Carlos Evia Copyright 2019
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA documents the evolution of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) – a widely used open standard for structuring technical content. DITA has grown in popularity and features since its origins as an internal grammar for structuring technical documentation at IBM. This book introduces Lightweight DITA (LwDITA, which should be read as... Read more

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter 1: Revisiting the Future of Technical Communication

Chapter 2: Before Intelligent Content, There Was the Computer Manual

Chapter 3: How DITA Evolved into LwDITA

Chapter 4: The LwDITA Initial Authoring Formats

Chapter 5: The LwDITA Map Components

Chapter 6: The LwDITA Topic Components

Chapter 7: The Abstractions Behind Intelligent Content

Chapter 8: Abstractions in the LwDITA Content Lifecycle

Conclusion: Remaking the Future of Technical Communication with LwDITA

Biography

Carlos Evia is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Virginia Tech. He teaches courses in professional communication and content management strategies. Carlos is also a voting member of the DITA technical committee and co-chair of the Lightweight DITA subcommittee at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.