Hello John:
Although I’d love to see the show-in-tell, it wouldn’t be enough
to do a meeting tomorrow just for that unless others have asked as well.
Kindest Regards,
- Jeff
Jeff Deskins
Principal Consultant, Solutions Consulting
JustSystems, Inc.
Office: 805-468-4162
Cell: 805-712-1810
jeff.deskins@justsystems.com
From: john_hunt@us.ibm.com
[mailto:john_hunt@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:17 AM
To: dita-learningspec@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [dita-learningspec] tomorrow's DITA learning SC meeting
Dear DITA
learning sub-committee -
We had an very
good meeting last week, with a show-n-tell on the proposed processing for DITA
-> SCORM, using two target templates from Bill Blackmon's best practices
guides. See background and samples here -
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningContent/14feb2008Agenda, plus Scott's
excellent minutes -
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-learningspec/email/archives/200802/msg00008.html.
==> Please reply back to
this list if you have anything you'd like to discuss tomorrow. I'd be glad to
reprise the show-n-tell on the SCORM templates, for anyone who missed, or talk
any topics of interest.
==> However, if no
topics come up by end of today, I'll cancel tomorrow. It will let me get to
work on the DTD/schema, spec updates, and SCORM processing.
Other
updates
This week, I
met with Robert Anderson, the DITA OT architect and also the person pulling the
DITA 1.2 design specs. He informs that the specifics for how the our
specialization spec will get integrated with the core spec are still TBD. This
mainly involves how we include the cross-references for the
Contains/Contained-by info, which in many cases ends up including a lot of references
back to the DITA core element set. (That, indeed, is one of the wonderful
things about specialization!)
I'm starting
today on the spec updates we discussed re: Wayne's comments. I'll make the
content changes, but will hold off on updating any of the cross-references,
pending how the Robert works out the process for that.
I also
discussed with Robert the issues related to the proposed DITA -> SCORM
processing we'd like to do to support the Template 4a, 4b, and 6 samples. He
provided good advice, and I'll get to work on that as soon as I finish the spec
updates. Robert says that we should be ready with our processing examples by
April 1, so they can be available with the spec review.
Again, on the
the DITA spec does not include processing, but we will provide our processing
"starter kit" as part of a DITA Open Toolkit distribution. And we can
get assistance from the OT development team as necessary.
Thanks to all
for your support we are looking good on our promise to deliver a learning
specialization with DITA 1.2.
John
___________________________________
John P. Hunt, Ph.D.
DITA Architect / Lotus Information Development Center
Chair, OASIS DITA learning and training content sub-committee
IBM Software Group/Lotus Software
john_hunt@us.ibm.com