The Developing Effective DITA Content workshop covers the following topics:
Introduction to DITA
- What is DITA and why use DITA?
- The DITA Open Toolkit, DITA authoring tools, and other resources
Introduction to Research-based Best Practices for Topic-based Writing
- The research-based principles
- Reusable topics and sections
- The Information types
The Analyze Phase
- Purpose, scope, and desired reader response
- Analyze the audience
- Create a topic and section list
The Organize Phase
- Identify the information types
- Create a DITA map (as a publication table of contents)
- Write a first draft
- Exercise
The Present Phase
- Task information types
- Present task information
- Concept information type
- Present rules & principle information
- Present business process information
- Present definition information
- Present structure information
- Reference information type
- Present fact and look-up information
- Tying it all together
- Overview topics and introduction sections
Note: Hands-on exercises are used throughout the workshop to improve the learning process.
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