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Process for the DITA 1.3 spec
The OASIS specification process has many steps:
Committee Specification Draft
Committee Specification Public Review Draft
Committee Specification
Candidate OASIS standard
OASIS standard
The DITA TC has just finished up with the #3. The next step in
the process is for the Candidate OASIS Standard to go out for a
60-day review. After the 60-day review, if everything goes well --
and I am leaving a lot of possible steps out here so as NOT to
make the e-mail hard to follow -- the membership of OASIS votes on
DITA 1.3.
If enough positive votes are cast (and not too many negative
votes), DITA 1.3 will become a standard. A little simplified, but
I wanted to stress the big picture.
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
On 9/4/2015 4:01 PM, Amber Swope wrote:
Thanks,
Chet.
As
a member of the DITA TC, this is great news. However, this
announcement doesn’t make it clear what this means. It would
be really helpful if this type of announcement put the
progress in context and noting what is the next step.
Thanks,
Amber
DITA
Strategies, Inc.
From:
Chet Ensign [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 12:47 PM
To: ;
;
DITA TC; ;
DITA TC
Subject: [dita-comment] DITA Version 1.3 Committee
Specification 01 is published
OASIS Members and other interested
parties,
OASIS is pleased to announce the
approval and publication of a new Committee Specification
by the members of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) TC:
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
(DITA) Version 1.3
OASIS Committee Specification 01
21 August 2015
Overview:
The Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) 1.3 specification defines both a) a
set of document types for authoring and organizing
topic-oriented information; and b) a set of mechanisms for
combining, extending, and constraining document types.
This release of DITA comes in three
parts called Editions, optimized for different audiences:
- The Base Edition is designed for
application developers and users who need only the most
fundamental pieces of the DITA framework.
- The Technical Content Edition
includes specializations usually used by technical
communicators.
- The All Inclusive Edition is the
largest edition. It is designed for implementers who want
all OASIS-approved specializations, as well as users who
develop learning and training materials.
TC Description:
The purpose of the OASIS DITA Technical
Committee (TC) is to define and maintain the Darwin
Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and to promote the
use of the architecture for creating standard information
types and domain-specific markup vocabularies.
DITA is specializable, which allows for
the introduction of specific semantics for specific
purposes without increasing the size of other XML grammar
files, and which allows the inheritance of shared design
and behavior and interchangeability with unspecialized
content.
URIs:
The prose specifications and related
files are available here:
- Part 0: Overview
HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part0-overview/dita-v1.3-cs01-part0-overview.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part0-overview/dita-v1.3-cs01-part0-overview.pdf
- Part 1: Base Edition
HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part1-base/dita-v1.3-cs01-part1-base.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part1-base/dita-v1.3-cs01-part1-base.pdf
Grammars:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part1-base/base-grammars/
CHM file:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part1-base/dita-v1.3-cs01-part1-base-chm.zip
DITA source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part1-base/base-dita-source/
- Part 2: Technical Content Edition
HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part2-tech-content/dita-v1.3-cs01-part2-tech-content.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part2-tech-content/dita-v1.3-cs01-part2-tech-content.pdf
Grammars:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part2-tech-content/tech-content-grammars/
CHM file:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part2-tech-content/dita-v1.3-cs01-part2-tech-content-chm.zip
DITA source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part2-tech-content/tech-content-dita-source/
- Part 3: All-Inclusive Edition
HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part3-all-inclusive/dita-v1.3-cs01-part3-all-inclusive.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part3-all-inclusive/dita-v1.3-cs01-part3-all-inclusive.pdf
Grammars:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part3-all-inclusive/all-inclusive-grammars/
CHM file:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part3-all-inclusive/dita-v1.3-cs01-part3-all-inclusive-chm.zip
DITA source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/part3-all-inclusive/all-inclusive-dita-source/
Distribution ZIP file
For your convenience, OASIS provides a
complete package of the prose specification and related
files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP
file here:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/cs01/dita-v1.3-cs01.zip
Members of the OASIS Darwin Information
Typing Architecture (DITA) TC [1] approved this
specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification
had been released for public review as required by the TC
Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee
Specification passed [3], and the document is now
available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.
Our congratulations to the TC on
achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers
who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help
improve the quality of the work.
========== Additional references:
[1] OASIS Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/
[2] Public reviews:
- 30-day public review, 09 July 2015: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201507/msg00003.html0
- Comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/csprd01/dita-v1.3-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.pdf
[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2847
--
/chet
----------------
Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC
Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information
society
http://www.oasis-open.org
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Mobile: +1 201-341-1393
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