Events • DITA-OT Day - Berlin 2017

Please visit the DITA-OT User Day 2018 event and join us in Rotterdam on November 4, 2018!

Welcome to the DITA-OT Day 2017!

This is a full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, DITA-OT which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions. This year we host the 4th edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day 2014, 2015 and 2016.

This free event is brought to you by Oxygen XML Editor with the help of the following DITA-OT Day supporters:

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8:00 - 9:00		Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 - 9:20		Welcome and sponsor presentation
9:20 - 9:30	Video	DITA-OT - Robert Anderson Robert Anderson - IBM A quick announcement about the DITA-OT project.
9:30 - 10:00	Video Slides	We shall call it preprocess2 - Jarno Elovirta Jarno Elovirta - Wunderdog Overview of preprocess2, the replacement module for the original preprocessing routines. This session explains the new approach, why we developed it, and why should you care.
10:00 - 10:30	Video Slides	Accessibility in DITA-OT - Robert Anderson Robert Anderson - IBM Not only is accessible content often mandatory, it's also just a good idea -- assuming you want your content available to as many readers as possible. This session provides an overview of the accessibility features in output generated by the DITA-OT. While many features are automated thanks to the semantic nature of DITA elements, others rely on you to make sure your content includes everything it needs to. While going over these features, we will explain how DITA-OT handles your content, while also giving tips for how to ensure your content reaches users on all sorts of devices.
10:30 - 11:00		Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Video Slides	DITA Validation and spell-checking - Jason Fox Jason Fox - HERE Jason will discuss and demonstrate how HERE Technologies extends DITA-OT using open-sourced plugins to continuously validate and build technical documentation. See: https://github.com/heremaps/dita-ot-plugins for more details. The discussion will cover the design and evolution of the plugins, interaction with end users and how you can integrate the plugins in your own workflows, as well as expected future developments.
11:40 - 11:55	Video Slides	Lightning Talk: Generating SVG syntax diagrams with plugins for all output formats - Robert Anderson Robert Anderson - IBM DITA includes a lot of markup for syntax diagrams, but it's not particularly useful without a way to render the diagrams. Many years ago Deborah Pickett wrote a group of plugins to render those diagrams as SVG, but they were tied to the "html+" transform type and required an obsolete version of DITA-OT. Last year IBM extracted the SVG diagram feature from those plugins, brought it up to date, and made it usable by other formats (including PDF and EPUB). This session will give an overview of Deborah's original plugins, and explain how anybody can use the updated versions with the latest DITA-OT.
11:55 - 12:10	Video Slides	Lightning Talk: Managing a large scale build environment with 50+ custom plugins - Robert Anderson Robert Anderson - IBM Tips and tricks, mistakes made, and lessons learned: how IBM manages a single build environment for hundreds of authors with 50+ plugins -- including new doctypes, new transform types, and externally contributed plugins -- while keeping up with the latest DITA-OT releases.
12:15 - 12:30	Video Slides	Lightning Talk: DITA-OT Docs Development(s) - Roger Fienhold Sheen Roger Fienhold Sheen - infotexture This talk provides an overview of DITA-OT documentation usage metrics and highlights recent changes to the docs and ideas for future improvements. We’ll close with room for suggestions from the community and a call for contributions with information on the browser-based workflow for suggesting changes.
12:30 - 14:00		Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Video Slides	Markdown support inside-out - Jarno Elovirta Jarno Elovirta - Wunderdog Description of how Markdown support was added to DITA-OT to make Markdown a first-class file format for DITA content. Focus is on the implementation details and goals instead of Markdown author perspective.
14:30 - 15:00	Video Slides	Using CSS to style the PDF output - Radu Coravu Radu Coravu - Oxygen XML Editor Using CSS to produce PDF from DITA content is way easier than writing plugins and customizing XSLT stylesheet and will probably become in the future the most used way to produce a PDF. We will go over the existing solutions for producing PDF from DITA using CSS and maybe try to show a little bit of the CSS pagination standard: change the front matter and backmatter, change headers and footers, change some colors and styles, change the paper type and orientation.
15:00 - 15:30	Video Slides	Bootstrapping DITA - Customizing HTML output for modern web frameworks - Roger Fienhold Sheen Roger Fienhold Sheen - infotexture Web developers often use CSS frameworks, HTML5 boilerplate or component libraries like Bootstrap or Foundation to quickly build robust, responsive sites. With custom HTML plug-ins, DITA-OT can be extended to produce HTML5 output that makes use of these common templates so that generated documents can build on existing front-end solutions. This talk will outline the process, using the DITA-OT project website at dita-ot.org as an example.
15:30 - 16:00		Coffee break
16:00 - 16:10	Video Slides	Lightning Talk: Automatically Create Targeted Review Docs for your SMEs - Leigh White Leigh White - IXIASOFT This presentation illustrates how an OT plugin can leverage CMS status information to create a PDF for review that includes only the content SMEs need to look at, or alternatively, include everything for full context but highlight the specific content that needs reviewing. This presentation demonstrates how to quickly create a PDF that includes material for a specific reviewer, and how to create a PDF intended for multiple reviewers with their names assigned to each topic.
16:15 - 16:25	Video Slides	Lightning Talk: Locale-Aware Sorting and Text Handling in the Open Toolkit - Eliot Kimber Eliot Kimber - Contrext Presents the DITA Community i18n Plugin, which provides an integration with the ICU4J libraries. The i18n plugin provides support for locale-specific grouping and sorting, including dictionary-based Simplified Chinese, as well as facilities for doing locale-specific word and line breaking.
16:30 - 16:40	Video Slides	Lightning Talk: DCQL - the Dita Cascading Query Language - Jang Graat Jang Graat - Smart Information Design Short overview of the DCQL attribute domain and accompanying code that allows pulling DITA content in from SQL or XML databases at publish time or runtime, and even keeping the data link alive on interactive media.
16:40 - 17:10	Video Slides	What are we missing? Where would you like to see us go? - Jarno Elovirta and Robert Anderson Jarno Elovirta and Robert Anderson This is a feedback session where we want to hear from you! One problem with DITA-OT development is that we don't usually know what our customers like most, what they're using, and (almost as important) what they're not using. It's also likely that in some cases, we're not sure what to ask. In this session we'll discuss potential ways of getting this feedback, related issues such as data privacy, and ideally take suggestions from the audience for improved communication.
17:10 - 18:00	Video	Panel: What's next for DITA-OT? - Jarno Elovirta, Robert Anderson, Roger Fienhold Sheen, George Bina Jarno Elovirta, Robert Anderson, Roger Fienhold Sheen, George Bina

Video Presentations

DITA-OT Announcement

Robert Anderson - IBM

We shall call it... preprocess...2!

Jarno Elovirta - Wunderdog

Accessibility in DITA-OT

Robert Anderson - IBM

DITA Validation and spell-checking

Jason Fox - HERE

Lightning Talk: Generating SVG syntax diagrams with plugins for all output formats

Robert Anderson - IBM

Lightning Talk: Managing a large scale build environment with 50+ custom plugins

Robert Anderson - IBM

Lightning talk: DITA-OT Docs Development(s)

Roger Fienhold Sheen - infotexture

Markdown support inside-out

Jarno Elovirta - Wunderdog

Using CSS to style the PDF output

Radu Coravu - Oxygen XML Editor

Bootstrapping DITA - Customizing HTML output for modern web frameworks

Roger Fienhold Sheen - infotexture

Lightning Talk: Automatically Create Targeted Review Docs for your SMEs

Leigh White - IXIASOFT

Lightning Talk: Locale-Aware Sorting and Text Handling in the Open Toolkit

Eliot Kimber - Contrext

Lightning Talk: DCQL - the Dita Cascading Query Language

Jang Graat - Smart Information Design

What are we missing? Where would you like to see us go?

Jarno Elovirta and Robert Anderson

Panel: What's next for DITA-OT?

Jarno Elovirta, Robert Anderson, Roger Fienhold Sheen, George Bina

Location

Radisson Blu Hotel Berlin

Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 3, 10178

Berlin, Germany

Tel.: +49-30-238280

Website: https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-berlin

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Events • DITA-OT Day - Berlin 2017

Please visit the DITA-OT User Day 2018 event and join us in Rotterdam on November 4, 2018!

Welcome to the DITA-OT Day 2017!

Agenda

DITA-OT - Robert Anderson

We shall call it preprocess2 - Jarno Elovirta

Accessibility in DITA-OT - Robert Anderson

DITA Validation and spell-checking - Jason Fox

Lightning Talk: Generating SVG syntax diagrams with plugins for all output formats - Robert Anderson

Lightning Talk: Managing a large scale build environment with 50+ custom plugins - Robert Anderson

Lightning Talk: DITA-OT Docs Development(s) - Roger Fienhold Sheen

Markdown support inside-out - Jarno Elovirta

Using CSS to style the PDF output - Radu Coravu

Bootstrapping DITA - Customizing HTML output for modern web frameworks - Roger Fienhold Sheen

Lightning Talk: Automatically Create Targeted Review Docs for your SMEs - Leigh White

Lightning Talk: Locale-Aware Sorting and Text Handling in the Open Toolkit - Eliot Kimber

Lightning Talk: DCQL - the Dita Cascading Query Language - Jang Graat

What are we missing? Where would you like to see us go? - Jarno Elovirta and Robert Anderson

Panel: What's next for DITA-OT? - Jarno Elovirta, Robert Anderson, Roger Fienhold Sheen, George Bina

Video Presentations

DITA-OT Announcement

We shall call it... preprocess...2!

Accessibility in DITA-OT

DITA Validation and spell-checking

Lightning Talk: Generating SVG syntax diagrams with plugins for all output formats

Lightning Talk: Managing a large scale build environment with 50+ custom plugins

Lightning talk: DITA-OT Docs Development(s)

Markdown support inside-out

Using CSS to style the PDF output

Bootstrapping DITA - Customizing HTML output for modern web frameworks

Lightning Talk: Automatically Create Targeted Review Docs for your SMEs

Lightning Talk: Locale-Aware Sorting and Text Handling in the Open Toolkit

Lightning Talk: DCQL - the Dita Cascading Query Language

What are we missing? Where would you like to see us go?

Panel: What's next for DITA-OT?

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