My Hello to OASIS LW DITA list

[John Hunt/Cambridge/IBM <john_hunt@us.ibm.com>]

Hello OASIS LW DITA!

I've had the good fortune to have worked
with Michael, Don, and the DITA team at IBM from the very start, including
the initial content prototyping where we proved the fit for DITA with Lotus
Notes help content. 

At OASIS, I led the sub-committee effort
to develop the support in DITA 1.2 for learning and training content. I
also co-chaired the DITA for Web subcommittee, which explored various use
cases for expressing DITA content on the web, including
HTML microformats, dynamic publishing, intelligent content, delivery to
mobile devices, and the role of DITA content on blogs and wikis. 

From the outset, DITA has offered a
direct and simple way to add meaning to content, and through that to enable
collaboration and reuse of content at many levels. 

Lightweight DITA may finally let us
build on that early promise, and open up DITA to the much wider world of
content creators, in marketing, in technical development, in education,
in publishing, in user experience design, and many more.

I'm particularly interested in exploring
these topics:
 - DITA and HTML5 for educational
publishing and EPUB
 - simple DITA templates to allow
educators to create curriculum plans, lessons, and learning modules
 - DITA and plain-text dialects
such as Markdown (for things like developer-created API specs)
 - lightweight DITA templates for
a much simpler set of learning and training content types

I'm looking forward to many fruitful
conversations with all of you going forward.

Thanks.

John
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John Hunt
Senior Technical Content Architect 
IBM Collaboration Solutions
john_hunt@us.ibm.com