Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA (ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication) - Hardcover

Book 3 of 23: ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

Evia, Carlos

 
9780815393818: Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA (ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0815393814 ISBN 13: 9780815393818
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0815393814
ISBN 13 
9780815393818
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
236

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