Hi Michael (and all),
Thanks for starting this.I have a few notes and observations here as we prepare for Monday’s call.
- Do we want to collect any demographic information before getting into the core Lightweight DITA questions?
- For #1, how about instead of giving an external link we write a concise (couple of paragraphs) definition of Lightweight DITA borrowing from your original blog post, our STC article, and the DITA NA presentations? I am happy to work on a draft of it and share.
- For #2 and #3, do you mean we are providing the optional examples or we are expecting them to provide their examples?
- For #2 and #3, add translators to list.
- For #6, provide descriptions/definitions of each tag.
- For #7, maybe use your example o
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f to-dos from the DITA NA slides to explain Lightweight DITA specialization.
After Monday’s call I can work on this with input from the SC. Like I mentioned before, this is very relevant to my current research project (expanding my analysis of DITA through Computational Thinking; IEEE paper published last fall attached to this message for information/entertainment of SC’s members who have not seen it), so I can put some time into it. And we can host it in Virginia Tech’s Qualtrics survey implementation.
Looking forward to Monday’s call.
Carlos
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On Jun 20, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Michael Priestley <> wrote:
How about this for dita-users:1 - link to overview/description of
lightweight DITA for them to review first2 - Which of the following authoring
roles are creating DITA today in your organization?(multiple-select list, option to provide
example url for each one selected, option to provide examples of content
types for each one selected)- Designers- Developers- Marketing authors- Salespeople- Product documentation authors- Embedded assistance authors- Trainers- Support- Subject experts- Internal policy/procedure authors- Other3 - Which content areas are you considering
Lightweight DITA for?(same list as above, with same options)4 - What source formats are important
for your use of LW DITA?XMLMarkdownHTMLJSONWordOther (write-in)5 - What delivery formats are important
for your use of LW DITA?HTMLPDFEPUBJSONWordOther (write-in)6 - Is anything missing from the following
list of block-level elements in LW DITA?puloldlpreaudiovideosimpletablefignotefn[write-in field after showing the above]7 - If you are planning to specialize,
which of the following capabilities are must-haves?- nesting div structures for deep containment
specializations- base attribute for arbitrary attribute
definition- multiple-level specialization (ability
to specialize off other specializations, not just topic) 8 - 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 (write-in)9 - is it ok to contact you for followup?
email addressMichael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)Enterprise Content Technology ://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley
