OASIS members and other interested parties,
Members of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC [1] have recently approved a Special Majority Ballot [2] to advance Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 as a Candidate OASIS Standard (COS). The COS now enters a 60-day public review period in preparation for a member ballot to consider its approval as an OASIS Standard.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
03 September 2015
Specification Overview:
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) 1.3 specification defines both a) a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information; and b) a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and constraining document types.
This release of DITA comes in three parts called Editions, optimized for different audiences:
- The Base Edition is designed for application developers and users who need only the most fundamental pieces of the DITA framework.
- The Technical Content Edition includes specializations usually used by technical communicators.
- The All Inclusive Edition is the largest edition. It is designed for implementers who want all OASIS-approved specializations, as well as users who develop learning and training materials.
13 Statements of Use were received from Comtech Services, Inc., Contrext LLC, DITA For Small Teams GitHub Organization, DITA Open Toolkit, DITA Strategies, Inc., Eberlein Consulting LLC, IXIASOFT, JustSystems Canada, Inc., Kaplan Professional Education, PTC, Syncro Soft SRL, Titania Software, and Virginia Tech. [3].
TC Description:
The purpose of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (TC) is to define and maintain the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and to promote the use of the architecture for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies.
DITA is specializable, which allows for the introduction of specific semantics for specific purposes without increasing the size of other XML grammar files, and which allows the inheritance of shared design and behavior and interchangeability with unspecialized content.
Public Review Period:
The 60-day public review starts 17 September 2015 at 00:00 UTC and ends 15 November 2015 at 23:59 UTC.
This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:
- Part 0: Overview
HTML (Authoritative):
PDF:
DITA source:
- Part 1: Base Edition
HTML (Authoritative):
PDF:
Grammars:
CHM file:
DITA source:
- Part 2: Technical Content Edition
HTML (Authoritative):
PDF:
Grammars:
CHM file:
DITA source:
- Part 3: All-Inclusive Edition
HTML (Authoritative):
PDF:
Grammars:
CHM file:
DITA source:
Distribution ZIP file
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:
Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC may be found at the TC's public home page:
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the instructions located via the button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:
Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of “OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3,” we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.
OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.
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[1] OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC
[2] Special Majority Ballot:
[3] Statements of Use:
1. Comtech Services, Inc.:
2. Contrext LLC:
3. DITA For Small Teams GitHub Organization:
4. DITA Open Toolkit:
5. DITA Strategies, Inc.:
6. Eberlein Consulting LLC:
7. IXIASOFT:
8. JustSystems Canada, Inc.:
9. Kaplan Professional Education:
10. PTC:
11. Syncro Soft SRL:
12. Titania Software:
13. Virginia Tech:
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