About DITA

What is DITA?

DITA staat voor Darwin Information Typing Architecture en is een XML-toepassing, ontwikkeld voor het maken, beheren en publiceren van modulair georganiseerde informatie. De DITA-specificatie wordt beheerd door het OASIS DITA Technical Committee en is nog steeds in ontwikkeling. De huidige standaard is versie 1.2 sinds eind 2009.

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DITA is Open for Business

DITA XML is the new HTML. By the time you finish reading, some new DITA specialization for a business or industry segment will be announced.

The time is right for businesses to seriously consider DITA as their first move into XML content development. Companies no longer have to worry if DITA has staying power because of its broad penetration into industries via specializations and the development of suites and systems that support DITA content development and publishing.

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Introduction to DITA topic-based authoring (English)

As its name states, DITA is an information architecture. DITA is mostly defined by a set of DTDs and a parallel set of schemas, which are maintained by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)—a nonprofit e-business consortium. DITA also enjoys the support of an increasing number of Open Source and commercial software products (such as Adobe FrameMaker 8) and add-ons that enable users to author and publish their content using the DITA content model.

DITA is more than just a schema/Document Type Definition (DTD). DITA represents an innovative philosophy and methodology for authoring and managing content. For example, with DITA, a document is not authored from beginning to end; instead, document components, or topics, are developed individually and assembled as needed (perhaps in a different sequence or hierarchy for different forms of output or target audiences) using a mechanism called a DITA map. DITA offers a number of such mechanisms that are combined to facilitate content reuse, multichannel publishing, and specialization (a form of customization) of structure to meet unique requirements.

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