On of the regrets I have about my career as a technical writer is that I never got to implement DITA. (If you're not a technical writer, you can probably skip the rest of this). DITA, or Darwin Information Typing Architecture, is a methodology for creating structured content. In a nutshell, it lets you separate your content from its format, which makes it possible to re-use your information in different places and in different formats.
Later this month, there's a free, online, DITA conference called Learning DITA Live. Over four days there will be sixteen sessions covering various aspects of DITA. From a quick look over the session topics, it doesn't look like any of these will be super-technical; after all, there's only so much geekery you can cram into an hour. But they've assembled a high-powered list of presenters, so the sessions should be worthwhile, and you can pick and choose which ones you want to view.
As for me, despite the fact that I'm retired, I'm still interested in some of the sessions, especially the one on Lightweight DITA, which is something normal humans might be able use.
Sessions will be recorded, so you should be able to view them later.
2 comments:
We do plan to record sessions. We know it's not convenient for everyone to attend the event live.
Thank you for spreading the word!
I've edited the post to remove "probably".
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