Re: [office-metadata] ODF, DITA and DocBook

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

9-10am (EDT) Friday works for me and
Michael Priestley.  How about you?  Bruce?  Anyone else?

-Rob

Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote
on 07/12/2006 07:14:36 AM:

> Rob,
> 
> Sounds good to me. I'm game.
> 
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> Today is not good either. Would Friday work for anyone?
> 
> Hope you are having a great week!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > I had a call today with Michael Priestly, Secretary of the DITA
TC. 
> >  They've been asked by OASIS to come up with a story, a
mock-up or a 
> > demo of some sort that shows how the various OASIS document formats
> > can work together, how it all fits together, for presentation
at a 
> > future symposium.   We're talking conceptual, "what-if"
more than what 
> > necessarily works today.  As I talked to Michael it because
clear to 
> > me that the most promising intersection of ODF and DITA seemed
to be 
> > in the area of the work we're doing with metadata.
> >
> > Now, I don't know about you, but I know very little about DITA.
 But 
> > if you are interesting in joining me to learn a little more about
this 
> > peer OASIS technology, and speculating about how ODF and DITA
can 
> > relate, I can host a conference call next week where we can get
a 
> > quick presentation on DITA from Michael and talk about possibilities
> > for interop.  Who knows, we might end up with another use
case <g>.
> >
> > Let me know if anyone is interested and I'll suggest some dates/times.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -Rob 
>