I see that re-use is already mentioned in the rest of the press release. Here's a suggested rework of your paragraphs below. “The most unique feature of the DITA standard is specialization,” said Kristen Eberlein, chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. “DITA enables practitioners to create new elements from existing ones in order to increase the semantic granularity. For example, a section element can be specialized to represent more specific types of sections such as “Introduction,” “Main point,” and “Conclusion”; this enables more precise semantic searching and better guidance for authors.” “Done correctly”, Eberlein continued, “Output processors always will understand the specialization hierarchy – a section is always a section, after all – and be able to apply general processing transformations. Together the re-use and interoperation possibilities of DITA allow great cost sharing and cost reductions.” From: Kristen James Eberlein [mailto:kris@eberleinconsulting.com]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 11:39 AM
To: Tom Magliery; Eliot Kimber; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dita] Sound bite for the OASIS press release The press release needs to go to Carol by next Tuesday. It also will include quotations from sponsor companies, such as IXIASOFT, Comtech, etc.
It probably should not be longer than two paragraphs.
Tom, I'll send you the draft press release off-list; it's currently marked OASIS Confidential. Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) On 1/15/2016 2:31 PM, Tom Magliery wrote: In fact I would say that interoperability is far more germane to the topic of specialization being emphasized here. If reuse is also important to highlight in this blurb, I think there needs to be some verbiage that calls attention to the topic-based architecture and the conref/keyref capabilities. This is perhaps less "unique" to DITA and I don't know the overall gist of the PR, so I don't know if you want that or not. mag I would add "and interoperation" to "the ensuing reuse possibilities": "the ensuing reuse and interoperation possibilities" Interoperation, with or without reuse, is an important and distinguishing feature of the DITA architecture. How about the following: “DITA is more than flexible, it’s specializable,” said Kristen Eberlein, chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. “The standard is unique; it enables practitioners to specialize from existing elements in order to increase the semantic granularity. For example, consider a very simple document. A section element can be specialized to represent more specific types of sections such as “Introduction,” “Main point,” and “Conclusion”; this enables more precise semantic searching and better guidance for authors.” “Done correctly”, Eberlein continued, “Output processors always will understand the specialization hierarchy – a section is always a section, after all – and be able to apply general processing transformations. This is unique to DITA, and the ensuing reuse possibilities allow great cost sharing and cost reductions.” Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) On 1/14/2016 1:15 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote: Carol Geyer has sent me a draft press release. It includes the following paragraph: “DITA is more than flexible, it’s specializable,” said Kristen Eberlein, chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. “The standard allows specific semantics to be introduced for specific purposes without increasing the size of other XML grammar files.” <PLEASE EDIT LIBERALLY>
I think we can improve this. Thoughts?
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Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
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