(Sorry for not sending this out sooner!)
Present: Keith Schengili-Roberts, Mark Poston, Richard Simms
Absent: Don Day, Kris Eberlein
Absent: Don Day, Kris Eberlein
=Taxonomy=
Mark reported on his progress in this area:
- has taken content from MindMeister and placed its contents into a specific taxonomy
Mark reported on his progress in this area:
- has taken content from MindMeister and placed its contents into a specific taxonomy
management tool called PoolParty (https://www.poolparty.biz/taxonomy-thesaurus-management/); he will now work exclusively in this tool
- is able to create relationships between items and can export as RDF; Mark has created a script
that converts this exported RDF to DITA Subject Scheme
- is able to create relationships between items and can export as RDF; Mark has created a script
that converts this exported RDF to DITA Subject Scheme
- within DITAWeb the taxonomy also creates "dummy topic" at a specific URL
(e.g. http://dita.xml.org/taxonomy/bookmap), which in addition to being a possible search result
page for articles containing "bookmap" in its metadata, also has space for a glossary definition
- demonstrated how synonymous terms can be created in DITAWeb
- Mark is investigating suitability of a third-party program for automatically classifying content
against the taxonomy; this will not be ready in time for DITA North America conference
(e.g. http://dita.xml.org/taxonomy/bookmap), which in addition to being a possible search result
page for articles containing "bookmap" in its metadata, also has space for a glossary definition
- demonstrated how synonymous terms can be created in DITAWeb
- Mark is investigating suitability of a third-party program for automatically classifying content
against the taxonomy; this will not be ready in time for DITA North America conference
=Content Conversion=
- Mark was able to demonstrate how several recent DITA Adoption white papers (all of the DITA 1.3
- Mark was able to demonstrate how several recent DITA Adoption white papers (all of the DITA 1.3
ones) would appear within the draft version of the website
- need more of the white papers, preferably in DITA format
- aspects of DITA 1.3 can be used as well, in particular the XML Mention domain elements
- Keith talked about efforts between himself and Don at converting material from old website;
- need more of the white papers, preferably in DITA format
- aspects of DITA 1.3 can be used as well, in particular the XML Mention domain elements
- Keith talked about efforts between himself and Don at converting material from old website;
Don has made significant strides in pulling volumes of existing content from the
Knowledgebase and converting them to DITA
- need to coordinate clean-up of this content prior to migration
- Mark also mentioned that we can start embedding keywords into the converted material
- need to coordinate clean-up of this content prior to migration
- Mark also mentioned that we can start embedding keywords into the converted material
based on the draft taxonomy
=Action Items=
Mark and Richard:
- continue work on UI and integrating taxonomy into draft website
- send Subject Scheme to Keith and Don so that we can start tagging metadata in converted
Mark and Richard:
- continue work on UI and integrating taxonomy into draft website
- send Subject Scheme to Keith and Don so that we can start tagging metadata in converted
content
Keith:
- ask for the other DITA Adoption whitepapers in DITA format
- coordinate with Don on converted content
- Ask Leigh White for sample chapters in DITA format from her book
Keith:
- ask for the other DITA Adoption whitepapers in DITA format
- coordinate with Don on converted content
- Ask Leigh White for sample chapters in DITA format from her book
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Keith Schengili-Roberts
DITA Information Architect / DITA Specialist
IXIASOFT
825 Querbes, Suite 200, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2V 3X1
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