Re: [dita-learningspec] why both a domain specialization and aspecialization of a map (or topic)?

[John Accardi <John.Accardi@Sun.COM>]

Thanks, John.

  This makes sense. You've convinced me about domain.

  To answer your question ....

john_hunt@us.ibm.com wrote:
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> Are there other examples of major structures of learning content that 
> we need to represent in a map that are not covered by map, bookmap, or 
> a learningObject domain?
    Based on what we are doing at Sun, I think these maps cover what we 
want to do.  For us the general map nests learningObject maps for both 
our web and print deliverables.  Also, I think being able to ref 
learningObject maps in parent learningObject maps will be very powerful 
and serve most needs.

    I'll not post the the question we discussed last Monday, because I 
think you have come upon the sensible approach here.

    Thanks,
    John


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> From: 	John Accardi <John.Accardi@Sun.COM>
> To: 	dita-learningspec@lists.oasis-open.org
> Date: 	05/10/2007 07:17 PM
> Subject: 	[dita-learningspec] why both a domain specialization and a 
> specialization of a map (or topic)?
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> In today's SC meeting I raised the question about the wisdom of
> implementing both a domain specialization and a specialization of a
> topic or map for the same structure...
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> Specifically, we discussed creating a specialization of map for a
> learningobject and then also doing a domain specialization of same.
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> Other than the obvious power of a domain specialization (being able to
> use across all info types) what are the advantages of doing this "double
> implementation"?
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> The analogous question referring to general DITA is ...
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> If bookmap.dtd is a specialization of map.dtd, why hasn't there been a
> domain specialization of a book(map) for use across all info types?  Is
> it because it doesn't make sense to be able to use a "book" anywhere
> (across all the infotypes)?
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> I'm hoping that knowing this for bookness in general DITA will help us
> determine if we in the SC should follow example with our learning object
> implementation.
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> Any insights? thoughts?
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> Thanks,
> John
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