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Leveraging communities for an improved DITA documentation process in Drupal

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In this video I explain how an organization can use a 3-step architecture to involve all the stakeholders of the production process in the development of DITA documentation. The architecture adds a community portal both upstream and downstream of the documentation team. The upstream and downstream portals can plug into the existing tools and processes of the documentation team through the use of DITA documentation topics and maps.

As a result more people are involved in the process without having to buy additional licenses of (expensive) specialized XML editors and/or CMS's.

Documentation client & server, poorman's DITA and improved export - Drupal-DITA documentation distro progress report 2

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Next video in the DITA documentation progress report series in which I demonstrate the results of the work of my colleagues Denes, Tamas and Kornel.

In this video you'll see:

  • A prototype of the documentation client and server that can be used for centralized documentation similar to how the localization server works.
  • Poorman's DITA: A CCK form with the most important elements from the DITA topics (currently tasks and concepts) that is transformed into valid DITA XML

Using Graphmind and Drush to build and export ditamaps with DITA Open Toolkit - Drupal-DITA documentation distro progress report

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In this video I demonstrate the results of the work of my colleagues Denes and Tamas, who built a first implementation of a Drupal site that takes DITA topics and let's you add them in a mindmap interface to a DITAmap and than export them using the DITA Open Toolkit.

This is a follow up on the blog posts I published a month ago: one with an interface mockup and the other post with a mindmap to ditamap conversion proposal.

Concurrent editing in Graphmind

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The following video is an initial proof of concept of the multiuser mode of Graphmind. It allows more than one user to work on the same mindmap at the same time. One step further to making Graphmind a real collaborative tool.

There is still a lot of work to prevent/resolve conflicts, but it shows the possibilities.

You can also watch the video on our Youtube channel.

Refactoring graphmind: a plan to mindmap life the universe and everything

The following is an outline of the new concepts and the architectural changes we want to introduce in the next version of Graphmind. If you are interested in the project please give us your feedback in the comments!

Concepts

Multi-user modes:

  • Transactional updates: all updates are packaged in an object that gets communicated through a P2P connection with the other Grapmind clients that are viewing the same session. We've got a demo of an initial proof of concept on Peter's post.

Graphmind: a mindmap UI for Drupal

In February I wrote a blogpost on how Drupal Freemind 2.0 could be turned into a relational (semantic) data interface. So many months later we've abandoned the Java plugin in favour of a Flex plugin and with what result...


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