Advanced Reuse Strategies

Thursday starting April 25, 2019: Online
A deep-dive exploration of all DITA reuse mechanisms, including conditional processing, conref, conref range, and conref push, keyref and conkeyref, branch filtering, and scoped keys.


Developing a User-Centric Content Strategy

May 20-21, 2019: San Jose, California
Techniques for learning about your users, their goals, and their work, and creating personas that will serve as a decision-making tool throughout the life-cycle of your project or product.


Information Modeling for Topic-Based Authoring

May 22-23, 2019: San Jose, California
A strategy for defining the architecture of your technical content, including the information types required, the elements they contain, and metadata, mapping, linking, and reuse strategies.


Optimizing the DITA Authoring Experience

Tuesdays starting June 4, 2019: Online
Design guidelines for making it as simple as possible for your authors to create and publish content that conforms to your information model and authoring guidelines.


Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need

June 17-18, 2019: Skive, Denmark
Practical application of the four principles of minimalism to select appropriate content for your users, structure it consistently, author it for easy understanding, and make it readily accessible.


Publishing for DITA

June 19-21, 2019: Skive, Denmark
A hands-on walk-through of the essential DITA fundamentals, programming skills, and DITA Open Toolkit configurations required to style and publish DITA XML source.


Publishing for DITA

Thursdays starting August 8, 2019: Online
A hands-on walk-through of the essential DITA fundamentals, programming skills, and DITA Open Toolkit configurations required to style and publish DITA XML source.


DITA Basics

Tuesdays starting September 24, 2019: Online
An introduction to the DITA standard and hands-on practice creating topics, assembling topics into maps, applying metadata, and publishing final deliverables.