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Subject: Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Some thoughts on next steps


I have table 17 for responsive mobile DITA but we can make it lightweight DITA instead. 

Carlos. 

On Sunday, April 19, 2015, Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com> wrote:
Scott, is there a way that Lightweight DITA could have a Monday lunch table? That way the subcommittee could meet over lunch.

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

On 4/18/2015 11:19 PM, Hudson, Scott wrote:
I’m afraid it might get confusing to release industry-specific specializations but then not including them in the package.

I’m still a little unclear as to the primary goal for the Lightweight DITA effort. Some have explained it as a valid subset of DITA, others have explained that it is a mapping of other vocabularies/languages to a subset of DITA elements. Which is it?

I was under the impression that we were trying to create a minimal subset that could provide an easy-to-use semantic tag set for use in a web-based authoring tool.

I’m worried about trying to push something out there just to “see what sticks”, when it could confuse a lot of people who are watching for news from this activity. 

I think we are on the right track as far as identifying the particular roles in a domain, but we need more detail about what document types those domains really need, and more specifics about what elements are must-haves.

I think we need to worry less about mapping implementations in other languages if we are still trying to identify the proper subset of elements?

Thanks,

—Scott

From: Michael Priestley
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 8:33 PM
To: "dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org"
Subject: [dita-lightweight-dita] Some thoughts on next steps

We had a small meeting last time, and talked about how to streamline our process to get something out sooner.  

What do people think about focusing our efforts on getting the core package out ASAP, with industry-specific specializations being used to validate the architecture but not necessarily including them in the package?

For example, we could aim to publish a specification for V1.0 that:

- defines lightweight DITA topics, maps, and specialization
- defines mappings/implementations for XML, HTML5, markdown, JSON
- defines a lightweight specialization document type that allows quick generation of new map and topic specializations
- and links to separate pages/papers for each industry/discipline area, which can continue being developed after the initial spec is published

Each domain position paper (not a formally approved spec) would cover:
- value proposition of lw dita for that domain
- listing of example roles and scenarios
- list of example content types
- at least one example specialization of one of the domain-specific content types (unless none are needed)

What do folks think? I'm reluctant to push too far ahead with the core spec without some validation from the domain analysis that we're including the right things. But maybe we're asking for too exhaustive an analysis. Maybe we just need enough analysis to ensure that we've got a useful direction, and then we can release and begin iterating.

Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Enterprise Content Technology Strategist
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/michael-priestley

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