Creating intelligent content with lightweight DITA, by Evia, C. (2019). New York, NY: Routledge.

Jason Tham; Dana Wilder

doi:10.1145/3363790.3363793

Communication Design Quarterly Feb 2020 Open Access

Creating intelligent content with lightweight DITA, by Evia, C. (2019). New York, NY: Routledge.

Jason Tham Texas Tech University ; Dana Wilder Texas Tech University

Abstract

With growing attention to "intelligent content" and "dynamic delivery" in the advent of connected technologies (i.e., Internet of Things, artificial intelligence agents), component content management and structured authoring skills are becoming increasingly required of technical communicators today. To produce reusable intelligent content, technical communicators need a systematic workflow and common authoring standard. Our experience in industry and in educating technical communicators has led us to seek out resources for understanding existing standards and practicing them with technical communication students. As such, both authors have used the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) markup standard and experienced what may be a perplexing process in content creation and management. Carlos Evia's book, Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA , caught our attention as the title suggests an accessible way into learning and applying what has become a widely adopted standard for structured authoring. Understanding that Lightweight DITA (LwDITA) does not aim to replace existing DITA standards, we approach this review not with an intention to examine its viability, but rather a focus on the rhetorical work in structured content authoring and its continuous evolution.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2020-02-13
DOI: 10.1145/3363790.3363793
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Topics: rhetorical criticism technical communication artificial intelligence
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