Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Thoughts on a survey

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Rahel Anne Bailie <>
Date
2016-06-28T17:34:34+00:00
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Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Thoughts on a survey
I reviewed the survey and cleaned it up a bit. Here's what I came up with:

The Lightweight DITA committee wants to understand
more about how DITA is, and could be, used inside of organisations to manage
their content more efficiently and get more benefit from their content.

 

Using DITA allows users to [fill in here with
description of lightweight DITA]

 

 
Which of the following  roles
     are creating DITA today in your organization? Choose as many options as
     apply. If possible, point us to an example by providing a URL for each
     type of content you now produce using DITA.

 

[will need to have clearly-indicated field for URLs or
comments]

 
Content
     designers

 
Content
     developers

 
Content
     editors

 
Customer
     support staff

 
Embedded
     assistance authors

 
Help/UA
     authors

 
Marketing
     communicators

 
Policy and
     procedure authors

 
Product
     documentation authors

 
Sales people

 
Trainers -
     Non-technical

 
Trainers -
     technical 

 
Software
     Designers

 
Software
     Developers

 
Support staff
     (Pas)

 
Subject matter
     experts - non-technical (eg marketing)

 
Subject matter
     experts - technical

 
Other
     (specify)

 

 
In which content areas are you considering Lightweight DITA? Choose
     as many options as apply. If possible, point us to an example by providing
     a URL for each type of content you would like to produce using DITA.

 

[will need to have clearly-indicated field for URLs or
comments]

 
Content
     designers

 
Content
     developers

 
Content
     editors

 
Customer
     support staff

 
Embedded
     assistance authors

 
Help/UA
     authors

 
Marketing
     communicators

 
Policy and
     procedure authors

 
Product
     documentation authors

 
Sales people

 
Trainers -
     Non-technical

 
Trainers -
     technical 

 
Software
     Designers

 
Software
     Developers

 
Support staff
     (Pas)

 
Subject matter
     experts - non-technical (eg marketing)

 
Subject matter
     experts - technical

 
Other
     (specify)

 

 

 
What authoring tools do you use to write your content in
     Lightweight DITA?

 
Help Authoring
     Tool (if so, which one)

 
HTML editor

 
JSON

 
Markdown

 
Microsoft Word

 
XML editor

 
Other
     (specify)

 

 
What delivery formats are important for your use of LW DITA?

 
ePub

 
HTML

 
JSON

 
Microsoft Word

 
PDF

 
XML

 
Other
     (specify)

 

6 - Lightweight DITA has the following
"block-level" elements [plain English definition]. Are there are
elements that you would consider important to be missing from this list? 

 
Figure [fig]

 
Footnote [fn]

 
List -
     Definition [dl]

 
List - Ordered
     (numbered [ol]

 
List -
     Unordered (bulleted) [ul]

 
Multimedia -
     Audio [audio]

 
Multimedia -
     Video [video]

 
Note [note]

 
Paragraph [p]

 
Prerequisite
     statement [pre]

 
Table - Simple
     [simpletable]

 

[Add any missing elements.]

 

 
Some organisations may want to specialize (customise) Lightweight
     DITA for their specific content needs. If you plan to specialize, which of
     the following capabilities are must-haves?

 
Being able to
     have containers within containers? (Nested div structures for deep
     containment specializations)

 
The ability to
     choose which attributes you add to content? (Base attributes for arbitrary
     attribute definition)

 
The ability to
     re-use a central specialization (Multiple-level specialization - the
     ability to specialize off other specializations, not just topic) 

 

 
Which of the following benefits/features of LW DITA matter to you?

 
Simpler XML
     authoring

 
HTML5
     authoring

 
Markdown
     authoring

 
Easier
     specialization

 
Easier tools
     development

 
Cross-silo
     content sharing

 
Cross-silo
     tool sharing

 
Other
     (specify)

 

 
If we have questions or want more information about your answer,
     could we contact you to followup? If so, please provide an email
     address.