Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA

Carlos Evia (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)

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Routledge
19 December 2018

Communication studies; Technology: general issues; Web programming

Series: ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

"Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA documents the evolution of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) – a widely used open standard for structuring technical content. DITA has grown in popularity and features since its origins as an internal grammar for structuring technical documentation at IBM. This book introduces Lightweight DITA (LwDITA, which should be read as ""Lightweight DITA"") as a proposed version of the DITA standard that reduces its dependence on complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) structures and simplifies its authoring experience. This volume aims to reconcile discrepancies and similarities in methods for authoring content in industry and academia and does so by reporting on DITA’s evolution through the lens of computational thinking, which has been connected in scholarship and media to initiatives for learning to code and programming.

Evia’s core argument is that if technical communicators are trained with principles of rhetorical problem solving and computational thinking, they can create structured content in lightweight workflows with XML, HTML5, and Markdown designed to reduce the learning curve associated with DITA and similar authoring methodologies. At the same time, this book has the goal of making concepts of structured authoring and intelligent content easier to learn and teach in humanities-based writing and communication programs. This book is intended for practitioners and students interested in structured authoring or the DITA standard."

By: Carlos Evia (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 326g
ISBN: 9780815393825
ISBN 10: 0815393822
Series: ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 19 December 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Foreword Chapter 1: Revisiting the Future of Technical Communication Chapter 2: Before Intelligent Content, There Was the Computer Manual Chapter 3: How DITA Evolved into LwDITA Chapter 4: The LwDITA Initial Authoring Formats Chapter 5: The LwDITA Map Components Chapter 6: The LwDITA Topic Components Chapter 7: The Abstractions Behind Intelligent Content Chapter 8: Abstractions in the LwDITA Content Lifecycle Conclusion: Remaking the Future of Technical Communication with LwDITA

Carlos Evia is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Virginia Tech. He teaches courses in professional communication and content management strategies. Carlos is also a voting member of the DITA technical committee and co-chair of the Lightweight DITA subcommittee at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.