Fw: Minutes of 2006/08/31 call, need volunteers for work items

This is where I realize I only sent
this to myself - gah. Hoist by my own reply default.

Apologies to everyone, I'll propose
the next call for Thursday Sept 28th, 1 PM EDT (5 PM UT).

Please take a look at the attached and
reply to me if there are work items you're interested in.

Thanks, and again sorry for the mixup.

Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead



http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

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Minutes of 2006/08/31 call, need volunteers
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In attendance:

- jirka kosek - docbook

- don day - dita 

- don harbison - odf

- robert anderson - dita

- nancy harrison - dita/docbook

- michael priestley - dita

We discussed the scenario and the work
it implies to have a fully functioning proof of concept. We are looking
for volunteers for each artifact/set of content and transform that currently
has a (?) next to it:

The timeline is fairly brisk - I think
we need the samples completed by end of September to hit our conference
dates in November and December. Here's a strawman schedule, comments welcome:

Finally, we need a recurring meeting
- how about every second Thursday, starting Thursday Sept 14th, at 1 PM
EDT (5 PM UT)? 

Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead



http://dita.xml.org/blog/25Title: Scenario analysis

Scenario analysis

Interop scenario with implied artifacts and transforms

Table 1. Scenario with artifacts and transforms
Scenario
Artifacts
Transforms

govt worker begins drafting a policy note in
ODF about the use of personal data received via email
ODF policy note (Don Harbison)
 

govt worker pulls in the text of the relevant statute,
which is in a DITA specialization
DITA statute (?) , DITA statute specialization (Michael
Priestley)
DITA2ODF (Michael Priestley) (consider chaining dita2html>html2odf)

govt worker pulls in the instructions on how to include
the text of the disclaimer in emails, from an email software support Website
written in DocBook
DocBook instructions (email software docs - instructions)
(?)
DocBook2ODF (Exists)

technical author 1, using DITA, creates an internal
policy and procedures website
DITA concept, task, reference (policies and procedures)
(?)
 

and pulls in text from the DocBook email software documentation
DocBook section (email software docs - security guidelines?)
(?)
DocBook2DITA (Nancy Harrison) (consider chaining docbook2html>htm2dita
- not good longterm because loss of semantic match)

and pulls in the legal text from a DITA specialization
DITA legal doc (?), DITA legal specialization (Robert
D Anderson)
 

and pulls in the relevant section of the policy note,
written in ODF
 
ODF2DITA (?) (consider chaining odf2html, html2dita)

technical author 2, using DocBook, creates a
customized version of the email software documentation
DocBook chapters and sections (?)
 

and pulls in portions of the procedures web site, in
the form of DITA topics and ODF policy notes
 
DITA2DocBook (exists - proof of concept), ODF2DocBook
(exists)

as the policy changes, or the email software changes,
or the statute itself changes, all the references can be updated simply by
rebuilding/republishing the content, since all reuse is by reference not by
copy-and-paste
 
 

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Title: Document standards interop schedule

Document standards interop schedule

Strawman schedule for work items

Table 1. Schedule of milestones
Event
Date

Complete presentation slides with scenario documented
2006 Sept 15

Complete artifacts/content samples
2006 Sept 30

Collect/chain existing transforms
2006 October 15

Complete demo script and automate transforms
2006 October 30

DITA Europe
2006 Nov 2-3

Fill gaps in transform logic
2006 Nov 15

XML 2006
2006 Dec 5-7

Improve transforms to preserve selected semantics
Spring 2007

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