Five DITA Eureka Moments
In Conversation With Michael Priestley, the IBM technical communication guru reveals “defining points” or “ideas” that constituted a quantum leap towards the DITA of today.
To quote: “It’s no secret that IBM was the birthplace of DITA – and that Michael was a catalyst. As an information architect and XML expert (with experience in topic-oriented writing, task-oriented information design, and single sourcing) in IBM Toronto’s Software Development Laboratory, he was involved with documenting software products using both HTML and the SGML-based DTD, IBMIDDoc, back in the late 90s. This documentation system had been in operation for many years, and Michael and his team started thinking about a more flexible approach – something that would allow the separation of content from its presentation and support the concept of centralized control of reusable assets.”
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