You’ll need to hear from Don, but it isn’t likely
that the TC will be able to vote on something that it hasn’t had a chance
to read in advance. So you might introduce and discuss the charter tomorrow and
the TC could vote on it the following week. Or posting something to the
TC list (dita@lists.oasis-open.org)
now might give you the option of having the vote tomorrow.
-Jeff
From: Mark Lewis
[mailto:mlewis@QUARK.com]
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 5:59 PM
To: Ogden, Jeff; Grosso, Paul; Don R. Day; Mary McRae
Cc: john_hunt@us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: DITA for the Web: Meeting invite for Wed Oct 21...changes
I
have not posted it to any Oasis page. I believe I may have got my wires crossed
in regards to having this posted "before" we the TC meeting. I
believe that John has asked Don about the proposal being on the agenda.
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Dear DITA TC
members,
For the past
several months, Mark Lewis (Quark) and John Hunt (IBM) have been exploring
interest and gathering interested parties on the topic of "DITA for the
Web."
We'd like to
update the TC on the status of these activities, and bring forward a proposal
to form a "DITA for the Web" sub-committee. The draft charter
below outlines the initial goals and deliverables for this effort.
We have held
three "forming" meetings in August and September, and drawn
considerable interest, including attracting several new OASIS memberships and
several more potential OASIS memberships if the sub-committee activity goes forward.
As an
indication of interest level, attendance has been from six to twelve people,
including nine current OASIS members, over the course of the three meetings
that we have held. An additional ten individuals have expressed interest in
participating in future meetings.
Draft
Charter
Goals:
1.
Provide a public forum for discussion about the management and delivery of DITA
content on the Web and how DITA relates to other web technologies.
2.
Recommend strategies and guidelines to the OASIS DITA Technical Committee that
promote best practices for applying DITA approaches to Web content.
3. Coordinate
with both the DITA Adoption TC and other subcommittees of the DITA TC who share
similar interests. For example, coordinate with the DITA Help subcommittee
related to using DITA to deliver help content on the web.
4. There
are many possible topics to consider. To help focus discussion, some examples
of specific topics to address may include one or more of the following:
a. use of
DITA content structures, semantics, and architectures in web sites, wikis,
blogs, feeds, and other web delivery contexts, either as native DITA or as
XHTML
b. use of
DITA best practices that can drive search, metadata, linking, and navigation of
web content
c. use of
DITA semantics that support an XHTML microformat representation of DITA content
on the web
d. use of
application programming interfaces (APIs) to make available and enable the
assembly and dynamic delivery of DITA content with web services
Deliverables:
1. Provide
recommendations to the DITA TC for specification changes or additions to the
DITA standard that enable better support for DITA content on the Web.
2.
Specifications or white papers on one or more of the above topics related to
DITA for the Web.
3.
Recommendations to the DITA TC for coordination with other related standards,
such as the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) TC or
Microformats.org.
4. A
white paper summary of recommendations and best practices guidelines for use of
DITA content on the Web.
Areas of
Exploration
In addition to
the areas mentioned in the charter, meeting discussion has surfaced interest in
the following additional areas related to DITA and web content deliver.
- DITA
and wikis
- Company-generated
content and community-generated content.
- Making
content findable and discoverable. How to use DITA to take advantage of
web services such as REST. Identifying DITA structures that provide
the best support for delivering content with a web service.
- How
to write web-ready content.
- DITA
and HTML 5
Collaboration
with other OASIS activities
We are in
discussion with both the Help SC and DICE SC about crossover and sharing of
efforts and resources.
What’s
in it for members?
Participation
in a "DITA for the Web" sub-committee brings several potential
benefits, both for prospective members and the DITA TC.
Credit
As a member of
this team you will receive credit for all subcommittee documents (white papers,
specifications, recommendations) that you author or co-author. A list of all
team members and roles will be maintained in a publicly visible location on the
OASIS website.
Influence
You will be
able to contribute and provide direct input to the standards committee on
issues that you are passionate about.
Networking
Committees such
as this offer an opportunity to network with the thought leaders of this
industry. Rub elbows, learn and teach.
Level of
Effort
We are
designing this subcommittee to have a fixed life-span with discrete measurable
goals. Unlike many volunteer projects that are black holes, the subcommittee
tasks will be designed as short projects where team members can work on things
that they are interested in and the grunt jobs are broken down into as small
tasks as possible and distributed evenly. We hope to make this fun, fast, and
as painless as possible.
Thanks for your
attention and interest. We look forward to discussing further at the TC meeting
on October 20.
John Hunt, IBM
Mark Lewis,
Quark
From: Ogden, Jeff [mailto:jogden@ptc.com]
Sent: Mon 10/19/2009 3:48 PM
To: Mark Lewis; Grosso, Paul; Don R. Day; Mary McRae
Cc: john_hunt@us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: DITA for the Web: Meeting invite for Wed Oct 21...changes
Is there a proposed charter for the SC out there that we can
look at before the DITA TC meeting? (Sorry if this was posted and I missed it)
-Jeff
From: Mark Lewis
[mailto:mlewis@QUARK.com]
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 5:42 PM
To: Grosso, Paul; Don R. Day; Mary McRae
Cc: john_hunt@us.ibm.com; Ogden, Jeff
Subject: RE: DITA for the Web: Meeting invite for Wed Oct 21...changes
John
and I are attending the DITA TC meeting tommorrow / Tuesday to present
information about the proposed DITA for the Web group, so that the TC can
decide and vote on whether a SC should be formed.
From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
Sent: Mon 10/19/2009 10:37 AM
To: Don R. Day; Mary McRae
Cc: john_hunt@us.ibm.com; Mark Lewis; Ogden, Jeff
Subject: FW: DITA for the Web: Meeting invite for Wed Oct 21...changes
Over a month ago, I questioned a mention of the DITA for the Web SC
in some minutes (see attached). I was told such an SC did not yet exist. I
asked when the DITA TC would see a proposed charter so that the TC can vote on
whether to start such a subcommittee.
Apologies if I missed it, but I don't remember seeing a proposed
charter or having the DITA TC voting on starting a DITA for the Web SC.
Have we?
If not, then I question the appropriateness of continuing to have
meetings--including presentations--talking about the DITA for the Web SC. The
only meetings at this time should be to develop a draft charter that the DITA
TC can vote on so that the SC can be constituted. Otherwise, should there be
meetings that appear to be for an OASIS SC when there is no such SC?
paul
From: Mark Lewis
[mailto:mlewis@QUARK.com]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 4:40 PM
To: Mark Lewis; john_hunt@us.ibm.com
Cc: tself@hyperwrite.com
Subject: DITA for the Web: Meeting invite for Wed Oct 21...changes
Tony
Self (chair of DITA Help SC) is presenting...see below.
Different
login info for this meeting only, so we can record Tony's presentation. Info
located at bottom of email.
Date:
Wed. Oct.21 at 10:00a.m. EST
Agenda:
Presentation:
Tony Self (chair of DITA Help SC)
will discuss how his website is dynamically published from DITA and how the
Help SC and DITA for the web SC may be able to work togethor.
Neil Perlin to give a portion of his upcoming Lavacon presentation on HAT tools
and DITA. Focusing on "What do help authoring tools do to enhance the
user’s ability to get DITA content to the web?"
Discussion Point:
Company generated content and community generated content. Anne Gentle and
Steve Manning will lead this discussion.
Regards,
John Hunt and Mark Lewis
Topic: DITA for the web
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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