I am posting the
proposed scenario (as follows) provided by Michael Priestley (thank you
Michael) to the docstandards list. I am also sending a list of venues for
potential participants to review and send feedback to the list please. As many
of you know, the InterOps take a lot of time and commitment but they are really
popular with analyst, conference attendees, end users and public
representatives.
The possible venues
are:
DITA Europe
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/
OASIS Open Standards
http://www.tekom.de/upload/alg/CfP%20OOSD.pdf
Open Publish 2006
http://open-conferences.com/baltimore/
XML 2006
XML 2006
http://2006.xmlconference.org/
Thanks!
Dee Schur
Member Support
www.oasis-open.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Priestley
[mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:07 AM
To: Dee Schur
Cc: 'Carol Geyer'; 'Dee Schur';
'Donald Harbison'; 'Don Day'; jane.harnad@oasis-open.org;
mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org; 'Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg'; 'Norman Walsh'
Subject: Re: Discussion to advance
DITA/ODF/DocBooks InterOp Demo
OK, finally got the outline done - harder than I thought, even at a high level,
to come up with something that didn't immediately expose my utter ignorance of
how the public sector works (please wait at least an hour before gently letting
me know that my efforts have been unsuccessful):
- govt worker begins drafting a policy note in ODF about the use of personal
data received via email
- govt worker pulls in the text of the relevant statute, which is in a DITA
specialization
- govt worker pulls in the legal disclaimer which must now be included in every
government email reply, from a different DITA specialization
- govt worker pulls in the instructions on how to include the text of the
disclaimer in emails, from documentation of the email software written in
DocBook
- technical author 1, using DITA, creates an internal policy and procedures
website
- and pulls in text from the DocBook email software documentation
- and pulls in the legal text from a DITA specialization
- and pulls in the relevant section of the policy note, written in ODF
- technical author 2, using DocBook, creates a customized version of the email
software documentation
- and pulls in portions of the procedures web site, in the form of DITA topics
and ODF policy notes
- as the legal disclaimer changes, or the policy changes, or the email software
changes, or the statute itself changes, all the references can be updated
simply by rebuilding/republishing the content, since all reuse is by reference
not by copy-and-paste
Now I'm off to sign on to the interop mailing list. Let me know if there's
anything I need to change before going to the DITA TC list with the proposal.
Suggestions for improvement/corrections would be very welcome.
Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
lease Date: 4/11/2006