OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Agenda 20 July 2009

[Joann Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Title: OASIS DITA Adoption TC -- Agenda 20 July 2009

OASIS DITA Adoption TC committee meeting has been modified by JoAnn Hackos Date:  Monday, 20 July 2009 Time:  03:00pm - 04:00pm GMT Event Description: Call-in (sponsored by IBM) details:
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Participant Passcode: 71382177 Agenda: Roll call

Regrets:
Accept minutes from previous business meeting on 8 July 2009
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200907/msg00010.html

Review open action items
JoAnn to outline a Beginner's Guide to Getting Output from DITA (tentative title).

(3 June 2009) JoAnn to work on a short article that explains DITA basic and to contact Mary McRae and ask her to establish formal relationship between UNESCO and OASIS.

(3 June 2009) Gershon will work on the list of requirements to check for selecting DITA tools that we have in the wiki.
(24 June 2009) JoAnn will review and clean the evaluation checklist from Robin, removing company specific details.

(24 June 2009) JoAnn will contact David Hollis regarding his article on the SWOT analysis.

(24 June 2009) Rodolfo announced that he started working on an article on using XLIFF to translate DITA content. JoAnn and Gershon offered to review the text before its published.

(24 June 2009) JoAnn will draft a charter for a new Translation Adoption Subcommittee

(1 July 2009) Kristen will contact Mary and request an SVN repository for this TC.

(8 July 2009) Gershon will contact Tony Self about TCs decision to publish both glossary articles.

(8 July 2009) Gershon to write a disclaimer statement for Adoption TC publications that indicates that the use of the OT or other technology for the examples is at the author's discretion.

Business

ITEM: DITA 1.2 Architectural Spec update (Kristen or Gershon)

ITEM: Glossary support—review status comments below:

Comment from R. Anderson

Joe and his developers are Suite
Solutions are leading the work on the FO plug-in at the moment, so if they
do not plan to implement it, then it probably will not go in soon. If
somebody else is willing to do some work on it, I would expect that they
could include it, but IBM is not using that plug-in yet so I can't get any
developers to devote time to it right now.

The existing support should support glossary entries as if they are
individual topics, using the usual specialization fallback mechanism. If
they are not even supported to that extent, then I'd view it as a critical
bug, because it would mean that specialization support itself is not
working. Anything above that fallback behavior is probably not available
though.

Comment from J. Gelb
Basically: there is nearly 0% support added in up to now. However, since
all the elements are specialized from something else, it could be that
there would be reasonable behavior without doing much – would need to get
tested with some real content. This is aside from any specific best
practice behaviors specified in the spec that would require complex
processing.
Although I am fairly certain we do have code for implementing glossaries,
we have not yet hit upon any customers who asked for this implementation,
so we do not have anything ready for contribution on this at this point.
However, we did have a customer who needed something that was not included
in this spec, <gloss-sort-as>, which we did in fact implement. Perhaps
someone on the dita architecture committee (or whoever created this spec)
can suggest including this.

ITEM: Review the two glossary and acronym articles— we will publish both separately
Tony Self’s version
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/31666/glossary_and_term_management.zip

Kara Warburton’s version:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/download.php/33197/GlossarySpecializationBestPractice-rev2jth%5B2%5D.doc
 
ITEM:
Draft a disclaimer statement for Adoption TC publications that indicates that the use of the OT or other technology for the examples is at the author's discretion.

ITEM: Review the revised draft of the Generic Task Model feature description
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200906/msg00014.html

Defer until JoAnn next participates in TC meeting

ITEM: Review the SWOT analysis slides for basic information and decide how to include in article on DITA adoption.
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/email/archives/200906/msg00015.html

Defer until David Hollis on call?
If David not on call, solicit possible volunteers to pick this up

ITEM Discuss UNESCO and International Atomic Energy Agency liaison efforts
From Tony Self: For some time, I have been trying to get Swinburne University involved in OASIS, and have finally made some progress. They might be able to add something to the UNESCO venture, so I wanted to keep tabs on whats happening in that area. I will keep you informed of developments at my end.
Defer until JoAnn on TC call

ITEM: Review list of DITA compliance requirements using the new wiki page. Continue this discussion today. Focus on question from 6 May  Who is the intended audience of this document? Users? Vendors? Establish an audience profile.
On hold until Gershon get to his action item on this item.
RECURRING ITEM: Articles about DITA 1.2 features
Task Model (JoAnn Hackos)

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/document.php?document_id=29943

JoAnn: Need examples that are realistic for task with steps, steps-unordered, and process. Plus all the standard blocks in task. It would be good to have a small set of very thorough examples.

Improvements to linking (Kris Eberlein) (on hold)
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-adoption/document.php?document_id=30211

RECURRING ITEM: Continue the discussion of the SWOT analysis and plans for the white paper.
SWOT analysis:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_SWOT_Analysis

SWOT analysis with business focus:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Business_SWOT_Analysis

SWOT analysis with author focus:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_Author_SWOT_Analysis

SWOT analysis with IT focus:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita-adoption/DITA_Adoption_IT_Dev_SWOT_Analysis

Review the SWOT analysis with business focus.
Add comments to the Author and IT pages.
RECURRING ITEM: Subcommittee reports
Focus Area Subcommittee
RECURRING ITEM: Call for users of DITA 1.2
OASIS needs a list of organizations that intend to use one or more DITA 1.2 features
RECURRING ITEM: Continue defining the TC activities and roadmap for 2009.
Add to the SWOT analysis wiki, which we will turn into a best practice document
Work with the Matthew Varghese on use cases for DITA. Add to the wiki on this subject
Review JoAnn's article on the 1.2 specification and Kristen's page (moved from the DITA TC to the Adoption TC)

Review the proposed changes for the dita.xml.org on the wiki.
Discuss plans for assisting the DITA TC with the documentation for the multiple packages for DITA 1.2.
We now have multiple wiki pages for the issues that we are discussing. Several of these should lead to best practice documents.
Reminders:
Committee members who have sent Robert Anderson comments about the DITA 1.2 Language Specification, let Gershon know. He will update the review page.
Add to the various subpages on the Wiki: everyone add to the meaning of DITA adoption
Consider the formation of informal subcommittees to work on specific tasks. The only formal SC being formed is the editorial board for dita.xml.org
Reminder: Please explore the dita.xml.org site and add comments, suggestions, concerns, etc. to this Wiki page:
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