DITA Content and XML Publishing with the UKs #1
As part our commitment the XML based DITA standard, Mekon are proud to announce our sponsorship of the DITA Europe 2006 conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
“We are pleased to be sponsoring DITA Europe, to be again working with the CIDM after our collaboration at X-Pubs 2006, and to be co-presenting with Schlumberger, our latest DITA solutions client. DITA Europe is a meeting point for thought leaders from around the world featuring top-quality content from a variety of industry speakers. It will be an excellent place for organisations to learn about real-world implementations DITA, and the latest technological developments. We also see this as a great opportunity to hear back from the DITA Community now that it has had a chance to work with the FrameMaker Publishing Adapter released earlier this year,” says Julian Murfitt, Managing Director, Mekon Limited.
Mekon will be presenting a case study with John Cornellier - Documentation Manager, Schlumberger Geoquest, and presenting the FrameMaker Adapter, the DITA ROI business case, and on how companies can best approach migration and implementation.
Mekon has been championing the use of the DITA standard in the UK and has contributed towards the DITA Open ToolKit by developing a publishing adaptor which allows users of Adobe FrameMaker to utilise the tools powerful pagination engine as part of their XML publishing systems. See XML FrameMaker for more.
The FrameMaker Adapter can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132728 and is freely available under the same open-source license as the DITA Open Toolkit. Clicker here for more on the DITA Europe Conference.
About Mekon
Mekon are enterprise publishing integration specialists with more than 15 years experience in single-source multi-channel publishing, document workflow design, information architecture, and standards such as ASD S1000D, ATA 2200iSpec, DocBook and DITA. Mekon helps organisations leverage the potential of XML for their content creation, review, management and publishing processes. Our systems enable businesses to increase the re-use, accuracy, flexibility and relevance of content, ensuring greater consumer satisfaction and reduced content generation costs.
www.mekon.com
Darwin Information Typing Architecture Resources
Introduction to DITA
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/
OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita
