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This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of

“IBM DITA Wiki–One Year Retrospective”
Presented by Don Day, IBM
September 2009 Arbortext PTC/User Group Meeting

Don’s slides are available here.

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. So far, we still haven’t been able to edit the video after it was recorded. We’re posting the video as is.

There may be black screen in the beginning. We’ve discovered that Go2Meeting doesn’t record the Go2Meeting “stuff”. While all the participants may see the startup screen, the Go2Meeting recorder ignores it.  Result?  Black screen during the introduction.

If you’ve got the skills to edit this recording, we’d love to have a volunteer fix it or suggest to us how to do so.

In the meantime, you may want to skip forward a bit in the recording and you should go read Don’s biography here. The rest of the video is all live. There is at least one break where we stopped the recording so our attendees could ask and answer questions without going out on the recording. Otherwise, every last bit is completely live.

Access the video here. You may need the Citrix Go2Meeting codec which is available here.

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Please join us online for our next meeting:

“IBM DITA Wiki–One year retrospective“

Presented by Don Day, IBM

Date: Saturday, 26 September 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US

Location:  Online via GoToMeeting. You must Register to receive the GoToMeeting invite.

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.

Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/168595330

Topic

The IBM DITA Wiki is an internal application created originally to demonstrate the feasibility of using native DITA in a collaborative authoring tool. It is positioned today as a key means for capturing the writings of Subject Matter Experts within the company in the reusable, easily repurposed DITA format.

The wiki is now a hosted service within IBM that enables contributors whose jobs are NOT technical writing to move their content development into the DITA standard. The collaboration aspect in particular has appealed to programming and education teams, and we are exploring the wiki’s suitability for other domains as well, such as engineering and support professionals.

This presentation will provide some background on DITA and this project’s history before delving into some of the experiences and successes of various user communities to date.

About the Speaker

Don Day is an advisory software engineer for IBM. For the past 15 years, he has designed and supported publishing tools for IBM’s Information Development community. Don provides XML expertise for Information Design and Development in IBM’s e-business Operating Systems Solutions area and for IBM Corporate User Technology. He has represented IBM on the W3C XSL Working Group and is presently IBM’s alternate rep for the W3C CSS Working Group. Don holds a dual-major Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism and a Master of Arts degree in Technical and Professional Communication (with a minor in Computer Science) from New Mexico State University.

http://www.ibm.com

Note

This meeting will be held online. You must RSVP to receive the LiveMeeting invite:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/168595330. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Acknowledgements

This meeting is brought to you by the SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Group

We want to thank Wolters Kluwer for supporting our organization and community-focused programs.

We want to thank Single-Sourcing Solutions for coordinating our meeting logistics, administration, and for providing access to their GoToMeeting resources and conference bridge facilities.

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