Content Management tools: DITA

Pupils are fond of learning new concepts and principles in their area of interest but normally they have shortage of time to grasp and successfully use intricate products and systems. In order to equip learners with time-efficient learning experiences, designers must offer premium quality training material, tailored to specific learner roles and delivered in time.

To resolve such dilemma, developers can reuse content efficiently. For many developers, effectual way to accomplish that efficiency will be the Learning and Training Content Specialization, version 1.2 of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard.

Darwin Information Typing Architecture, abbreviated as DITA is vital designed content standard that is planned to manage technical information in refillable topics stored as XML. DITA divorces content from the presentation layer so that writers can focus on writing the content rather than the “look and feel” of the final product.

In simple form, DITA is an XML-based open standard for organising, developing, managing, and publishing content. Giant company, IBM initially developed DITA to more competently reprocess content in product documentation. 

Progression of DITA:


In today’s technical driven environment, the DITA standard has gained immense acceptance as a general XML DTD and architecture for technical papers.
Main design dogmas of DITA:

-        Topic orientation: Discrete units of information wrapping a specific subject with a specific intent.

-        Topic granularity: Self-contained topics pool with other topics into information sets.

-        Strong typing: DTDs and schemas guarantee that DITA types follow identical information structures.

-        Specialization: Architecture for extending basic types to new types modified for a particular use within an information set.

-        Common base class: Top-level "generic" base type provides “fallback” for all types.


Major DITA Topic types:



DITA has several merits in corporate sector. Most of the organizations have comprehended significant time and cost savings, along with augmented quality and flexibility through active use of DITA to manage documents and providing reuse in areas such as:

-      Technical documentation and service manuals
-      Learning documentation
-      Legal documents
-      Marketing material
-      Process descriptions
-      Compliance documentation

It can be abridged that the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
  is tool to make the task easier in the arena of technical writing. While breathing in information era, we all realized that information is shaped with implausible speed. Challenging issue today is managing colossal amounts and varieties of information. Darwin Information Typing Architecture, is a viable solution to this looming problem. DITA uses principles of inheritance for specialization. It was formerly aimed to process technical information based on an information architecture of Concept, Task and Reference.



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