Join CIDM, Trisoft, and OASIS for the 2nd Annual 2006 DITA Europe Conference!

The conference will be at the NH Frankfurt Rhein-Main hotel in Frankfurt, Germany November 2-3. This year you will hear presentations from the DITA technical committee, companies currently implementing DITA, and vendors creating tools to implement DITA.

Don't miss

Michael Priestley's Keynote Presentation
"DITA Evolves"

With the adoption of DITA into an ever-increasing range of industries, disciplines, and integration scenarios, DITA's capabilities are being constantly put to the test. Can it scale from small shops to industry consortiums? Can it adapt to new audiences, new content types, new development methodologies? Priestley discusses the current capabilities DITA provides that enable it to adapt rapidly and effectively to new environments and looks ahead at new capabilities planned for DITA 1.1 and 1.2 to protect existing DITA investments and grow their values for years to come.

Also

• a fully integrated demo of the vendor tools
• Patrick Gannon, President and CEO of OASIS, presents "The Value of Open Standards for Content Management in a Global Environment"
• use cases by companies using DITA
• and more!

This year, we have extended the DITA Europe conference to 2 days to give you more opportunities to learn about DITA from people who are currently working with DITA. Come away from this conference with an understanding of what DITA is, how it can improve your technical information, and what tools you will need to bring all of this together.

Agenda now available online!

Who should attend?

This conference is designed for those who are interested in implementing XML DITA or learning more about this new standard for topic-based authoring.

If you develop, produce, and deliver technical information today, you know that "content is everything." You also know that you have to keep costs under control and provide new solutions that deliver content in multiple ways to your customers. You've thought about "chunking" your content into smaller, reusable topics, but you don't know how to get started.

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Why call it DITA?

DITA (pronounced dit-uh) is one of the most important innovations in XML publishing this century. It means

Darwin—DITA provides a single-sourced information model that can be specialized and evolved to account for your particular authoring needs.

 

Information Typing—DITA was designed for technical information based on a core set of information types: concept, task, and reference.

Architecture—DITA provides a framework for designing and delivering technical content efficiently.

Using DITA means working with the new international OASIS/XML standard for topic-based authoring of well structured content. Out of the box, DITA provides you with a structure amenable to most technical information. And it provides you with a mechanism for extending the structure to meet your industry's needs.

For more information on DITA and the CIDM, please visit the CIDM website.