Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA
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Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA

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Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9781351187497
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Foreword
  12. 1 Revisiting the Future of Technical Communication
  13. 2 Before Intelligent Content, There Was the Computer Manual
  14. 3 How DITA Evolved into LwDITA
  15. 4 The LwDITA Initial Authoring Formats
  16. 5 The LwDITA Map Components
  17. 6 The LwDITA Topic Components
  18. 7 The Abstractions Behind Intelligent Content
  19. 8 Abstractions in the LwDITA Content Lifecycle
  20. Conclusion: Remaking the Future of Technical Communication with LwDITA
  21. Index