Events • DITA-OT Day - Brussels 2019

November 9, 2019

Welcome to the DITA-OT Day 2019!

This is a full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions. This year, we will host the 6th edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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 - 9:10	Video	Welcome and sponsor presentation
9:10 - 09:30	Video	News and Announcements - DITA-OT Day team DITA-OT Day team
9:30 - 10:00	Video Slides	Trim your toolkit with this one weird trick! - Robert Anderson Robert Anderson - IBM DITA-OT has now been under development for over fifteen years. If you started customizing DITA-OT with the first release to support plug-ins, even those plug-ins could be over a decade old. So what should we all be doing to keep our tools clean? In this session, we will talk about how DITA-OT has grown: a brief history of how we got where we are, past efforts to handle technical debt, what we all might do to help make it easier to manage (or get rid of) that debt.
10:00 - 10:30	Video Slides	Running on someone else’s computer - Jarno Elovirta Jarno Elovirta - Wunderdog Description and demo of how to deploy DITA-OT on AWS, using Batch, Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway to run the process and orchestrate the deployment with CDK.
10:30 - 11:00		Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Video Slides	Various useful Open source plugins to enhance DITA publishing - Radu Coravu Radu Coravu - Oxygen XML Editor The DITA Open Toolkit publishing engine has support for plugins which can be installed to customize or enhance the publishing process. In time Syncro Soft (the company which produces Oxygen XML Editor) has developed and made open source lots of small plugins which can be installed in the publishing engine. I will be presenting small examples in order to show case what each plugin in the Oxygen XML GitHub organization does and maybe give you ideas about how you could use these open source plugins on your side.
11:40 - 11:55	Video Slides	AH-WML DITA-to-Word Plug-in - Tony Graham Tony Graham - Antenna House AH-WML is a DITA-OT plug-in that generates Microsoft Word Document (.docx) from DITA contents. It is a work in progress, but it already supports multiple image formats (GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, EMF, SVG (Word 2016 or later)), CALS table rendering, and several standard DITA elements (<p>, <ul>, <ol>, <dl>, <pre>).
11:55 - 12:10	Video Slides	One file to rule them all (DITA Project) - Jarno Elovirta Jarno Elovirta - Wunderdog DITA-OT 3.4 introduces support for project files to define reusable input context and publications. We discuss why the feature was developed, how to use them and in the darkness bind them.
12:10 - 12:30	Video Slides	Editing DITA Open Toolkit Project files - George Bina George Bina - Oxygen XML Editor DITA Open Toolkit project files can store the entire set of main DITA Maps, output formats and parameters necessary for publishing your DITA project. We'll explore how an XML editing tool can provide editing, validation and publishing support for the project file.
12:30 - 14:00		Lunch
14:00 - 14:20	Video Slides	All the cool kids are using JavaScript - Jason Fox Jason Fox - FIWARE Foundation Demonstration of a series of DITA-OT plugins combining the use of JavaScript with ANT and XSLT. An architectural discussion on how to design, test and integrate JavaScript-based functions within DITA-OT Plugins and how to split the code between different programming languages and appropriate use of extension points. The plugins include a syntax-highlighter and a DITA prettifier: fox.jason.splash fox.jason.prismjs fox.jason.readthedocs fox.jason.pretty-dita
14:20 - 14:40	Video Slides	All the cool kids are using the Cloud - Jason Fox Jason Fox - FIWARE Foundation Demonstration of two new DITA-OT transforms showing how to create novel XML-based intermediate outputs and consume cloud-based services. The two new transforms cover DITA-to-speech and intelligent natural language translation of text based on semantic DITA markup: fox.jason.audiobook fox.jason.translate.xliff
14:40 - 15:00	Video Slides	The Art of doing nothing - Jason Fox Jason Fox - FIWARE Foundation Standard DITA-OT pre-processing assumes that all input files are of a processable format (e.g. DITA topics, lwDITA, hDITA etc). This session demonstrates the use of a series of DITA-OT pass-through plugins, which avoid DITA-OT pre-processing and extend possible input formats for chapters and topics to a wider range of standard documentation formats used by developers and non-technical experts (e.g. Word documents, Swagger specifications, Postman collections etc.): fox.jason.passthrough fox.jason.passthrough.pandoc fox.jason.passthrough.swagger
15:00 - 15:30	Video Slides	Documentation Developments - Roger Fienhold Sheen Roger Fienhold Sheen This talk provides an overview of recent changes to the DITA-OT documentation and project website, points out open issues, highlights ideas for future improvements, and closes with room for suggestions from the community and a call for contributions.
15:30 - 16:00		Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30	Video Slides	Case Study of Taxonomy and Search for DITA-OT - Lief Erickson Lief Erickson - Scriptorium Publishing The DITA-OT website was the case study organization for my master's thesis. In this session we'll talk about what data and metrics influenced the taxonomy used to create the index, how Subject Scheme is used to control @outputclass values, how Algolia DocSearch is causing findability problems, and recommendations for improvements.
16:30 - 16:45	Video Slides	Generating metrics from your DITA project - Radu Coravu Radu Coravu - Oxygen XML Editor The DITA Map Metrics Report plugin can be used to generate all kinds of interesting metrics from your DITA project. We'll explore what the plugin can offer and then use the plugin to build graphics which show metrics evolve between various versions of the user's manual.
16:45 - 17:00	Video Slides	Easy as pie PDF customizations using CSS - Radu Coravu Radu Coravu - Oxygen XML Editor CSS can be used to produce quality PDF and using CSS to style the PDF output is much easier than using XSLT stylesheets. We'll explore various scenarios (changing fonts, changing the paper size, rotating pages, flagging content) and see how easily this can be done using CSS.
17:00 - 18:00	Video	DITA-OT Shop Talk - Robert Anderson, Roger Sheen, Jarno Elovirta, George Bina Robert Anderson, Roger Sheen, Jarno Elovirta, George Bina Join us for an inside view of the DITA Open Toolkit project workshop: Who’s on duty; what’s on the workbench; shavings, chips, and sawdust on the cutting room floor; management negotiations with union representatives; annual guild membership drive, and a few ideas for what comes next.

Video Presentations

Welcome and sponsor presentation

News and Announcements

DITA-OT Day team

Trim your toolkit with this one weird trick!

Robert Anderson

Running on someone else's computer

Jarno Elovirta

Various useful Open source plugins to enhance DITA publishing

Radu Coravu

AH-WML DITA-to-Word Plug-in

Tony Graham

One file to rule them all (DITA Project)

Jarno Elovirta

Editing DITA Open Toolkit Project files

George Bina

All the cool kids are using JavaScript

Jason Fox

All the cool kids are using the Cloud

Jason Fox

The Art of doing nothing

Jason Fox

Documentation Developments

Roger Fienhold Sheen

Case Study of Taxonomy and Search for DITA-OT

Lief Erickson

Generating metrics from your DITA project

Radu Coravu

Easy as pie PDF customizations using CSS

Radu Coravu

DITA-OT Shop Talk

Robert Anderson, Roger Sheen, Jarno Elovirta, George Bina

Location

Crowne Plaza Brussels Le Palace

Rue Gineste 3, Brussels

Tel.:+32 1 877 227 6963

Website: https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/brussels/brube/hoteldetail

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Events • DITA-OT Day - Brussels 2019

November 9, 2019

Welcome to the DITA-OT Day 2019!

Agenda

News and Announcements - DITA-OT Day team

Trim your toolkit with this one weird trick! - Robert Anderson

Running on someone else’s computer - Jarno Elovirta

Various useful Open source plugins to enhance DITA publishing - Radu Coravu

AH-WML DITA-to-Word Plug-in - Tony Graham

One file to rule them all (DITA Project) - Jarno Elovirta

Editing DITA Open Toolkit Project files - George Bina

All the cool kids are using JavaScript - Jason Fox

All the cool kids are using the Cloud - Jason Fox

The Art of doing nothing - Jason Fox

Documentation Developments - Roger Fienhold Sheen

Case Study of Taxonomy and Search for DITA-OT - Lief Erickson

Generating metrics from your DITA project - Radu Coravu

Easy as pie PDF customizations using CSS - Radu Coravu

DITA-OT Shop Talk - Robert Anderson, Roger Sheen, Jarno Elovirta, George Bina

Video Presentations

Welcome and sponsor presentation

News and Announcements

Trim your toolkit with this one weird trick!

Running on someone else's computer

Various useful Open source plugins to enhance DITA publishing

AH-WML DITA-to-Word Plug-in

One file to rule them all (DITA Project)

Editing DITA Open Toolkit Project files

All the cool kids are using JavaScript

All the cool kids are using the Cloud

The Art of doing nothing

Documentation Developments

Case Study of Taxonomy and Search for DITA-OT

Generating metrics from your DITA project

Easy as pie PDF customizations using CSS

DITA-OT Shop Talk

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Support DITA-OT Day

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