Minutes from Feb 9th 2015

My notes are pretty minimal - apologies,
and I promise to remember to ask for volunteers next time!

I have several todos below, none of
which I have been able to accomplish in the last two weeks. Again I apologize,
and I aim to do better in the next two.

My notes from last meeting:

Status review for industry focus areas:

-------------

learning and training - john, amber,
scott, birgit

        use
cases - 4 categories

         
      public school education - us k-12

         
      higher education - very interested in more
input from professors on call - carlos interested

         
      corporate training

         
      educational publishing      
         

machine industries - sissi, jang

        jang
has to focus on paying work at the moment

        sissi
willing to continue work - michael p to meet with her and review past work,
next steps

software development - me, stan doherty,
others on specific streams

        use
cases - 3 categories

         
      technical writer and developer collaboration
- (focus on api documentation, agile development requirements) - carlos
interested in this stream

         
      upstream requirements and specifications -
including traceability of requirements to content - aaron interested in
this stream

         
      technical writer and support collaboration
- amber interested in this stream assuming it starts later in year

         
              look for
intel presentation on this at dita north america conference

marketing and ecommerce (new, split
off from software development

        noz,
me, don day, amber for first mtg

        michael
p to set up mtg with them to follow on

--

Discussion of lightweight DITA mappings

        markdown
mapping in progress

        need
for json mapping?

easydita has "better web help"
project on github that uses json/html5 mapping for dita

don has conversion as part of expedita

problems: json doesn't have representation
of attributes on elements

don developed a partial transform to
json for citrix's interactive training - included titles, shortdesc, etc.but
not full content

there are json-based databases out there,
including ones used for dita storage - again, easydita?

Mappings we are likely to need (to/from
lightweight dita):

xml

html5

markdown

json

epub3?

Goal is to share tables as dita documents
for now

--

Additional discussion

don would like marketing examples from
within ibm

        michael
p to explore

carlos:

        consider
companies at virginia tech for pilots of lightweight dita

        can
put out rfp essentially for them to respond

        as
part of training for them to develop their docs etc.

---

Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)

Enterprise Content Technology Strategist



http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley