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Subject: Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] My intro for the list
I worked at IBM with Michael in developing what became DITA. My
local management, who could not grasp the significance of an
Outstanding Innovation Award that our sponsor secured for our team,
had my award plaque titled: "in appreciation for: Lead Architect
That Led Initial Architectural Team in Investigative Activities to
Deploy External Package." I hope Michael's management has framed his
contributions more meaningfully. After leading that "Initial Architectural Team" in getting DITA as a specification into OASIS and the original transforms into the open source DITA Open Toolkit, I focused on providing DITA authoring solutions to IBM's content contributors whose primary job is Not Technical Writing (aka, SMEs, support, developers, engineers, standards, policies, Web publishers, etc.) and prototyped a "DITA Wiki" before retiring in 2010. I've since consulted for DITA and web publishing services, and speak often on deployment challenges and solutions. My long-term project called expeDITA is an exploration of DITA's continuing role for writing communities outside of the usual reach of DITA adoption messaging. It's getting there, and the latest version will render LightWeight DITA (such as it is) and is ready to accept prototype editing approaches for it. Why am I excited for this activity? Lightweight DITA and other XML solutions like it are poised to provide publishing services that are still missing from the W3C-defined HTML architecture itself. For example, if you want to create adaptive content for the Web, there are no standard HTML-based solutions (but plenty of incompatible in-house and commercial hacks). XML along with community-bridging content standards like Lightweight DITA can shed light (and W3C standards-based tools) into that dark corner of the Web. --
On 9/16/2014 7:33 PM, Michael Priestley
wrote:
As we discussed in the meeting yesterday, I'm kicking off a round of intros so we can all get to know each other a little better. |
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