FW: Proposal for a DITA Help subcommittee

Esteemed DITA TC members  

 
For your consideration at the TC 
meeting on Tuesday, July 31, 
2007, I propose that the TC officially 
establish a  Help subcommittee. 
The below provides the proposal name, goals, deliverables, chair, and initial 
membership for this proposed subcommittee. 

Thank you for your 
consideration and support. 

Tony 
Self 
HyperWrite Pty 
Ltd 
Tel :  +61-3-9803-8291
E-mail: tself @  
hyperwrite.com

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Subcommittee name 

"DITA Help  
Subcommittee " 

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of 
the OASIS DITA Help SC (DHSC) is to:

  
develop a top-level design for authoring of Help 
  systems and user assistance content for 
  implementation using DITA; 
  
establish recommendations for the integration of 
  DITA-authored Help systems and software applications using 
  context-sensitivity; 
  
remove the obstacles to effective use of DITA for 
  Help systems through the creation of best 
  practice guidelines, cookbooks and worked examples, and to promote the 
  use of DITA for creating Help systems and user assistance content; 
  
develop informal support for processing DITA for 
  delivery as Help systems and user assistance; 
  
establish guidelines that promote best practices 
  for applying standard DITA approaches to Help systems and user assistance 
  content. 

Proposed 
chair 
   Tony Self,  HyperWrite Pty Ltd (though open to other 
nominations or co-chair) 
 

The deliverables of the DHSC will 
be: 

  
recommendations to the DITA TC for 
  specification changes to better support Help systems and user assistance 
  content; 
  
a high-level processing model description that 
  defines the standard use of DITA for Help systems and user assistance content; 
  
  
explanations and guidelines for the use of DITA 
  for Help systems and user assistance content. 

Initial membership 

The following TC members have 
expressed interest as initial members in this subcommittee: 

1.         Stan Doherty, Sun 
Microsystems
2.         Deborah Pickett,  Moldflow Corporation . 

3.         Alice Etim, IBM 

4.         Robin Sloan, 
PTC
5.         Seth Park, 
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

6.         Scott Prentice, Individual
7.         Tony Self ,  HyperWrite