Re: [dita-s1000d-discuss] Kicking off the New Year

[Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com>]

I also agree that this list is the appropriate place to discuss the 
business cases that might drive the formation of a TC or SC.

According to Scott Abel (I think this was posted to the list earlier 
this week), there will be "a presentation at the upcoming Documentation 
and Training Conference in Vancouver called:
S1000D and DITA: Enhancing the User Experience, presented by Joe Gollner 
of Stilo. One of Joe's clients has been using S1000D and DITA together 
for some time now and Joe wil be sharing the results of his case study 
with the audience."

It would be interesting to find out more about this client from Joe and 
what their business needs were for using both S1000D and DITA.

If Scott or Joe are on this list, can you provide any additional 
information around the business cases you've encountered in this area?

Thanks and best regards,

--Scott


tes-tig-2 wrote:
> I agree with Chet and Scott. The primary driver for future work should 
> be a valid business case. We (in the S1000D community) know the space 
> the spec occupies and I am sure the DITA community know the same for 
> DITA. Are there instances where the information contained in both are 
> complementary or need to co-exist? Are there real life examples where 
> interchange is required? Are there valid scenarios that could be 
> substantiated where interchange could be required? You'll see that I 
> have some questions and not any answers yet, I agree that this is what 
> the discussion forum should tackle first.
> Happy New Year to you all (a bit belated, but we get more holidays for 
> it here in Scotland)
>  
>  
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Chet Ensign [mailto:chet.ensign@comcast.net]
>     *Sent:* 05 January 2007 13:20
>     *To:* Tsao, Scott; Scott Hudson
>     *Cc:* dita-s1000d-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
>     *Subject:* RE: [dita-s1000d-discuss] Kicking off the New Year
> 
>     Scott, do you think such real world use cases exist? I agree with
>     your proposal and think it is one of the first things that a
>     S1000D/DITA committee would do. However, if there's question as to
>     whether the business needs exist or not, then that is something that
>     should be discussed in this discussion mailing list because it is
>     central to the question of whether a TC or subcommittee should be
>     formed. No real world business need = no need to form a committee.
>      
>     /chet
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         *From:* Tsao, Scott [mailto:scott.tsao@boeing.com]
>         *Sent:* Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:03 AM
>         *To:* Scott Hudson; Chet Ensign
>         *Cc:* dita-s1000d-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
>         *Subject:* RE: [dita-s1000d-discuss] Kicking off the New Year
> 
>         To respond to Scott's solicitation below, I was taking the 3rd
>         approach by suggesting that we develop some realistic
>         interoperability scenarios first (see
>         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-s1000d-discuss/200701/msg00002.html). 
>         I think that anything we do here should be driven by the real
>         use cases that would bring business value to the industry, not
>         by the wants of a group of IT professionals.  For example, we
>         need to ask ourselves this question: "What is the real use cases
>         (and the associated business value) for making provisions for
>         the round-trip (content interchange) between DITA and S1000D?"
> 
>          
> 
>         Regards,
> 
> 
>         */Scott Tsao/*
>         Enterprise Architecture and Integration
>         The Boeing Company
> 
> 
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Scott Hudson [mailto:scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com]
>         Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:27 PM
>         To: Chet Ensign
>         Cc: dita-s1000d-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
>         Subject: Re: [dita-s1000d-discuss] Kicking off the New Year
> 
>         Thanks, Chet!
> 
>         I also want to make provisions for the round-trip. I'm not sure
>         if the DITA SC could extend it's scope to include producing a
>         transform to take DITA content to an S1000D-compatible form?
>         (then again, if it is specified in the charter, perhaps it could)
> 
>         Thoughts?
> 
>         --Scott
> 
>         Chet Ensign wrote:
>          > Happy New Year Scott. I lean towards a subcommittee since
>         this is, in
>          > effect, a subset of broader DITA activities. The TC already
>         has 3 in
>          > place to address other specialized concerns. This topic also
>         looks
>          > like a similar sort of initiative.
>          >
>          > Best,
>          >
>          > /chet
>          >
>          > -----Original Message-----
>          > From: Scott Hudson [mailto:scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com]
>          > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:00 PM
>          > To: dita-s1000d-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
>          > Subject: [dita-s1000d-discuss] Kicking off the New Year
>          >
>          >
>          > Folks,
>          >
>          > thank you for your introductions and active discussions this past
>          > December regarding DITA and S1000D interoperability.
>          >
>          > I'd like to kick off the New Year with an informal poll.
>          >
>          > Given the strong potential for alignment between S1000D and DITA,
>          > would you support:
>          >    1) the formation of a Technical Committee at OASIS to move
>         forward
>          > with the detailed mapping work and technical artifacts, or
>          >    2) would you rather support the formation of a
>         SubCommittee as part
>          > of the existing OASIS DITA TC to handle this work, or
>          >    3) are there other suggestions as to how to move forward
>         on this effort?
>          >
>          > The charter of this discussion list is limited to what could
>         be done
>          > in a TC/SC and proposed charter development, though I would
>         also like
>          > to use this discussion list as a way of collecting relevant
>         available
>          > information on these standards as well.
>          >
>          > Best regards and Happy New Year,
>          >
>          > --Scott
>          >
>          >
> 

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