DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 November 2006

["Gershon L Joseph" <gershon@tech-tav.com>]

Best Regards,
Gershon

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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 November 2006

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 at 08:00am PT
for 45 minutes.

1.  Roll call
    We have quorum.

2.  Accept minutes from previous business meeting:
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200611/msg00009.html (14 Nov)

    Accepted. [moved by Don, seconded by Sharon, no objections]

3.  Business:

    1.  ITEM: Follow up on "Use of standardized prefixes when incorporating 
        foreign vocabularies"
        
        Action: Eric to provide clarified text for foreign specialization 
        topic - use of class attributes on non-DITA content
        [WWW] http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200611/msg00005.html (previously available description)

            Yas: Need to update foreign element topic with the updates in the 
            above URL.

            CLOSED.

        Action: Robert Anderson to provide text on foreign content 
        generalization - moving content into sidefile, reincluding on 
        respecialization
        [WWW] http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200610/msg00062.html (previously available)

            Michael: Need to add additional information into the spec, such as naming
            convention.

            Don suggested using URI.

            Michael: Robert and I need to work on the wording to expand it 
            more before adding it to the spec. The above email is incomplete.
            
            Revised action item: Robert Anderson and Michael Priestley to 
            provide text on foreign content generalization - moving content 
            into sidefile, reincluding on respecialization.

            CONTINUED.

    2.  ITEM: Ongoing review of 1.1 drafts:
        
        Action: Don Day and Michael Priestley to publish updated drafts with 
        comments/feedback incorporated

            CONTINUED. Hope to get updated drafts out next week

        ACTION: Don and Alan Hauser to discuss language updates to the spec.

    3.  ITEM: Translation best practices
        
        Best Practice for Indexing DITA topics
        [WWW] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20479/092606%20Best%20Practice%20for%20Indexing%20DITA%20topics_jth.doc
        [WWW] http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200611/msg00024.html (Paul's comments)

        ACTION: Translation TC to handle Paul's comments at next scheduled 
        meeting. Ensure Paul is on the list/meetings that discuss these 
        comments.

        ACTION: Update title to reflect the translation-orientation of the BP.
        
        ACTION: Add section about index entry in metadata for a topic reference in a map.

        Best Practice for Translation Memory
        [WWW] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21294/Best_Practice_for_Leveraging_Legacy_Translation_Memory_when_Migrating_to_DITA-final061120.doc

        Revisit next meeting.

    4.  Update: IPR Transition

4.  Deferred until actions completed

    1.  Outcome of Kravogel telecon on Nested Sections

5.  Announcements/Opens

    None.

-- Meeting adjourned at 08:45 --