Scott, Our technical publications and e-Learning company is doing a lot of work using OASIS DITA 1.2 (Spec: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/spec/DITA1.2-spec.html). They have something called a Subject Schema (http://docs.oasis- open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/common/subjectScheme.html#subjectscheme).
The Subeject Schema is roughly comparable to RDFs logic. The Subject Schema can not only map out a knowledge model, but it can also define condional process elements eg the Role: Installer can have conditonal processing so tha tonly topics or topic elments (steps) appear for the Installer. The Subejct scheme can also be used to control the metadata for Ditamaps used to publish a collection of topics and used for the indexing. The ditamap references in the Subject Schema to make the knoweldge model and conditional attributes avaialbel in the XML authoring editor. I have had great difficulty getting the DITA 1.2 schema imported into Composer because OASIS has gone with many DTDs as oppsed to DITA 1.1 which was 1 DTD. I would love to see supprt in Composer to be able to easily integrate with DITA 1.2 and the Subject Schema map. Our content management system is SiberLogic's "SiberSafe" which can use an OWL ontology to manage the knowledge model and can even have rules to generate new XML topics from a tempalte when the knoledge model is added to. However, the OWL ontology editor is about 6 years old and hard to use. This posting, in summary, describes a use case for better integration with OASIS DITA, as part of the open source comunity, and a more limited use case of integrating with SiberSafe. I could see you supporting DITA, but not SiberSafe as a DB connector. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
