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DITA Adoption TC:Listening Sessions

Europe / East Coast / West Coast

Adoption Technical Committee

Agenda■ Introductions■ Polls (All attendees)■ Questions to the audience from OASIS■ Questions from the audience to OASIS■ Wrap-up

■ 1 Hour Session – but will continue for another half hour if there’s still an active discussion.


Opening remarks . . . welcome!

Joe [email protected]

Kathy [email protected]

Scott [email protected]

Keith [email protected] Doherty

[email protected]


Registered Attendees Companies - Europe■ ACL Computers■ ARRIS■ Awel-A-Ben■ Dell■ DNV GL■ Dolby Labs■ Ericsson■ Gaz Metro■ GIDD■ Grunfos■ HP■ HPE■ IBM

■ John Deere■ Madame■ Medtronic■ MENSNAR■ Micro Focus■ Milestone Systems■ parson AG■ Semantic Web■ Semcon■ Sidero■ Sigma Technology■ Stilo■ Talend

■ Ultimate Software

■ Varian Medical■ Vocera

Communications


Registered Attendees Companies – East■ Accuray■ ACI Worldwide■ ADP■ ARRIS■ BARBRI■ Briggs & Stratton■ Butler Univ.■ Citadel■ Dassault Systems■ Dell EMC■ Doosan Bobcat■ Enbridge■ Extreme Networks■ Finatech■ FM Global■ Gaz Metro■ Guidewire

■ HPE■ Hypertherm■ IBM■ INVIDI■ ISACA■ Magaya■ Mastercard■ Maxprograms■ Medtronic■ Motorola■ Nanthealth■ Nokia■ National Instruments■ PTC■ Sandvik■ Schneider Electric Software■ Siemens PLM

■ Simply XML■ solidThinking■ Stilo■ Tegercat■ Ultimate Software■ Univ. of Minnesota■ USG■ USP■ Veracode■ VIVA-IT■ Wolter Skluwer


Registered Attendees Companies - West■ A-dec■ ADP■ Allstate■ Applied Materials■ ARRIS■ Boeing■ CareFusion■ Cherwell Software■ Danfoss■ Dassault Systems■ FICO■ FireEye■ Fiserv■ Gaz Metro■ Grundfos

■ Guidewire■ Haliburton Landmark■ Hitachi Data Systems■ Hologic■ IBM■ Imerge consulting■ Intel■ Intuitive Surgical■ IQVIS■ Jamf Software■ Marvel Semi.■ Mastercard■ Medtronic■ Nutanix■ Omnicell

■ Oracle■ OSIsoft■ Palo Alto Networks■ PAREXEL■ PDS Tech. Services■ QUALCOMM■ Salesforce■ SAP Ariba■ Schlumberger■ Stryker■ TAC■ Xillinx


Current DITA Usage

8%

19%

25%

44%

3%

17%

13%

23%

40%

6%

4%

4%

35%

46%

12%

Considering

Plan to

DITA 1.3

DITA 1.2

DITA 1.1

Europe East West


Features Currently Using: part 1

76%

18%

41%

32%

47%

50%

39%

50%

11%

50%

77%

23%

65%

35%

58%

Content Libs.

Branch Filtering

Filtering

Constraints

Specialization

Europe East West



19%

27%

27%

19%

62%

19%

22%

19%

22%

56%

48%

30%

26%

30%

78%

Release Mgmt

Highligh elem. Constraint

Learning & Training

Troublesooting

Keys

Europe East West



48%

14%

25%

40%

11%

44%

30%

41%

33%

15%

65%

20%

30%

50%

10%

SVG

MathML

Linking videos

Hazard statements

Machinery task

Europe East West


How many languages to you translate to?

7%

7%

30%

33%

23%

20%

12%

20%

27%

22%

16%

4%

20%

40%

20%

> 20

11-20

5-10

< 5

0

Europe East West


Do you have an information model?

3%

15%

82%

14%

14%

71%

8%

4%

88%

Not sure

No

Yes

Europe East West


What kind of version control do you use? (select all that apply)

6%

19%

44%

13%

31%

16%

32%

27%

14%

24%

9%

26%

52%

26%

26%

No; we pray a lot

cCMS (hosted)

cCMS (on premises)

git (GitHub, GitLab…)

SVN, TFS, Mercurial, etc

Europe East West


Current Stand on Lightweight DITA

21%

56%

9%

15%

41%

41%

14%

4%

19%

48%

10%

24%

Not aware of it

Aware - undecided

Aware - won't use

Aware - will use

Europe East West


What resources do you use for DITA answers? (select all that apply)

72%

69%

38%

66%

66%

25%

16%

16%

30%

14%

83%

79%

42%

63%

58%

Consultants, training & conferences

Personal networking

yahoo group (dita-users)

dita.xml.org

OASIS white papers

Europe East West


Participating company report-outs

■ Your organization – type of company, size of your team, types of content you create, translation?

■ Your environment – version of DITA, tools, etc…?■ What has worked well?■ What has proven to be expensive? difficult? stupid?■ How could the OASIS DITA Technical Committees help?■ What would you like to see by way of local DITA resources

or engagements?

A rep from participating companies has a few minutes to share information about their DITA status and concerns.


Discussion Topics – Europe■ Pros and Cons between DITA and DocBook■ Implementation challenges■ Conversions / Migration (i.e. from inDesign)■ Reuse■ Keyscope■ Profiling■ Metadata■ Information Architecture■ Topic based authoring■ Publishing to the cloud■ Editing, publishing and collaboration on technical

documentation


Discussion Topics – East Coast■ Implementation challenges■ Conversions / Migration (i.e. from inDesign)■ Reuse■ Keys and Keyrefs■ Translation / localization■ Learning and Training■ cCMS■ Topics■ Best practices for variable library (should this be done on an

individual basis by project, or setup to cover all projects)■ Interested in omissions in the standard for elements that are

needed


Discussion Topics – West Coast■ Pro / Cons of DITA■ When to use DITA and when

not to■ Tangible business value of DITA■ Complexity of deployment■ Reuse Strategies and Best

Practices■ Conversion Planning and

Execution■ Adding HTML tags into the DITA

spec■ Semantic tagging■ Specialization■ What’s beyond 1.3

■ Markdown■ Conditional Text■ DTD/XSD/RNG■ Information Types■ Keyscope■ Troubleshooting■ Software UI element■ Code / UML■ Translation■ Designing / Implementing

Output■ Typical CMS features for DITA


FYI -- OASIS DITA Adoption Resources■ OASIS DITA Adoption TC public home page

- Whitepapers on: new DITA 1.3 features, 1.3 release management domain, 1.3 scopedkeys, 1.3 math domain, 1.3 troubleshooting, DITA roles and responsibilities

■ OASIS DITA Adoption TC wiki pageContact Keith: [email protected]


Wrap-Up / Thank You

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