DARWIN INFORMATION TYPING ARCHITECTURE FOR ELEARNING

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DARWIN INFORMATION TYPING ARCHITECTURE FOR
ELEARNING

• Chiru Claudiu
• Vasiliu Paul
• Pacuraru Raluca

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What is DITA?

• The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
  is an xml-based architecture for authoring,
  producing, and delivering technical information.
• The DITA architecture was originally developed by
  IBM. DITA is now an OASIS standard.

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What is DITA?

• Darwin
• DITA uses principles of inheritance and
  specialization
• Information Typing
• DITA is based on an information architecture of
  Concept, Task and Reference for technical
  documents
• Architecture
• consists of a set of design principles, defined
  in a DTD

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DITA key concepts

• Topic
• Topic a piece of information that makes sense in
  any context and is based on a single subject. A
  topic is meaningful when it stands alone
• Maps
• Organize a set of topics for navigation, defines
  relationship

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DITA key concepts

• Domains
• A DITA domain defines a collection of terms
  (vocabulary) for common use across more than one
  topic type.
• Specialization
• Provides a way to obtain new topic types, new
  domains, new map types as extensions to the old
  ones.

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DITA key concepts

• Conditional Text
• A standard way to personalize the document by
  using some kind of attributes
• Content References
• Mechanism for reusing standard text

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Topic

• Piece of information that make sense in any
  context
• Can be put together in different ways
• Topics are DITA buiding blocks
• Covers a specific object
• Doesnt assume that something has been explained
  previously
• It is reusable

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Three basic topic types

• Concept
• describes something.
• It contains definitions, rules and guidelines
• Task
• describes how to accomplish a task.
• It displays a list of steps that the users must
  follow to produce a specified result

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Three basic topic types

• Reference
• A Reference topic offers details.
• It describes command syntax, programming
  instructions, reference material.

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IBM DITA structure for elearning

• DITA provides a infrastructure for developing a
  content model for learning.
• The DITA specialization architecture provides a
  built-in method to extend DITA to support new
  content elearning elements.
• IBM developed the following DITA extensions that
  support learning content

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IBM DITA structure for elearning

• New topic types will support learning-specific
  topic types such as
• lesson overviews,
• objectives,
• summaries,
• exercises,
• assessment content

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IBM DITA structure for elearning

• A new content domain will support content
  vocabularies that are used across the DITA topic
  types for learning support
• A new map domain DITA that collects and organize
  references to DITA learning topics to indicate
  the relationships among the topics and delivery
  as a learning course

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IBM DITA structure for elearning

• DITA topic types for learning are contained in a
  learningbase type.
• These new topics are learningOverview,
  learningTopic, learningSummary, learningPractice,
  learningAssesment

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Creating DITA documents with Web browser
integrated editors (DITA STORM)

• DITA Storm
• Inmedius product designed to produce DITA
  documents using a browser.
• embeds an editor into a browser. There is no need
  for a plugin installation or a server side script
  deployment.
• easy to use DITA editor
• it can be used as a text processor or WYSIWYG
  editor.
• allows adding of new elements and
  specializations.

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Creating DITA documents with Web browser
integrated editors (DITA STORM)

• Reading DITA files from the Web Server

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Creating DITA documents with Web browser
integrated editors (DITA STORM)

• Editing DITA files with DITA Storm

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Creating a simple DITA elearning system with
DITAstorm

• Adding elearning elements
• Modifying model.xml file
• Adding child elements in groupallow section
• Adding description of the child elements
• Compiling the model.xml file
• Use the structure defined previously for creating
  and delivering documents

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Bibliography

• Darwin Information Typing Architecture(DITA)
  Specification 1.1
• Don Ray (2005), Introduction to the Darwin
  Information Typing Architecture, IBM corporation
• John Hunt, An XML-based information architecture
  for learning content, Part 1 A DITA
  specialization design, IBM corporation 2005
• www.ditastorm.com - DITA Storm technical
  documentation