Any feedback from anyone else? Rahel, have
you had a chance to give it a look over?
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley
From:
Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM
To:
Carlos Evia <>
Cc:
Date:
06/21/2016 01:29 PM
Subject:
Re: [dita-lightweight-dita]
Thoughts on a survey
Hi Carlos,
For #1 - sounds good - maybe still worth
including the link as well, for those willing to spend the time on it,
but shouldn't be a prereq for the survey
For 2 and 3 - I was thinking they'd
be providing examples, of the content they're currently publishing from
DITA or want to publish from DITA. And ok by me to add translators.
For 6 - agreed
For 7 - ok - need to make this part
easy to skip for folks who aren't interested in/familiar with specialization
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley
From:
Carlos Evia <>
To:
Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA,
Date:
06/20/2016 08:48 PM
Subject:
Re: [dita-lightweight-dita]
Thoughts on a survey
Sent by:
<>
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 of 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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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.
Director of Professional and Technical Writing
Associate Professor of Technical Communication
Department of English
Center for Human-Computer Interaction
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112
(540)200-8201
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
first
2 - 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
- Other
3 - 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?
XML
Markdown
HTML
JSON
Word
Other (write-in)
5 - What delivery formats are important for your use of LW DITA?
HTML
PDF
EPUB
JSON
Word
Other (write-in)
6 - Is anything missing from the following list of block-level elements
in LW DITA?
p
ul
ol
dl
pre
audio
video
simpletable
fig
note
fn
[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 address
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley
