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 mpri...@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/25 ----- Forwarded by Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM on 09/19/2006 09:58 AM -----

Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM To Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA cc 08/31/2006 02:51 PM Subject Minutes of 2006/08/31 call, need volunteers for work itemsLink

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 mpri...@ca.ibm.com http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

Title: 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 | ODF policy note | | | a policy note in ODF about | (Don Harbison) | | | the use of personal data | | | | received via email | | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | govt worker pulls in the | DITA statute (?) | DITA2ODF (Michael | | text of the relevant | , DITA statute | Priestley) (consider | | statute, which is in a DITA | specialization | chaining | | specialization | (Michael | dita2html>html2odf) | | | Priestley) | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | govt worker pulls in the | DocBook | DocBook2ODF (Exists) | | instructions on how to | instructions | | | include the text of the | (email software | | | disclaimer in emails, from | docs - | | | an email software support | instructions) | | | Website written in DocBook | (?) | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | technical author 1, using | DITA concept, | | | DITA, creates an internal | task, reference | | | policy and procedures | (policies and | | | website | procedures) (?) | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | and pulls in text from the | DocBook section | DocBook2DITA (Nancy | | DocBook email software | (email software | Harrison) (consider | | documentation | docs - security | chaining | | | guidelines?) (?) | docbook2html>htm2dita - | | | | not good longterm | | | | because loss of semantic | | | | match) | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | and pulls in the legal text | DITA legal doc | | | from a DITA specialization | (?), DITA legal | | | | specialization | | | | (Robert D | | | | Anderson) | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | and pulls in the relevant | | ODF2DITA (?) (consider | | section of the policy note, | | chaining odf2html, | | written in ODF | | html2dita) | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | technical author 2, using | DocBook chapters | | | DocBook, creates a | and sections (?) | | | customized version of the | | | | email software documentation | | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | and pulls in portions of the | | DITA2DocBook (exists - | | procedures web site, in the | | proof of concept), | | form of DITA topics and ODF | | ODF2DocBook (exists) | | policy notes | | | |------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------| | 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 | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

= 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+