What is a topic in DITA?

The topic is the core working piece of DITA.  Some people may call a topic an article.  Like an article, it has a title and content all pertaining to one subject or “topic.”  Most of the time a topic covers one step in a process.  A topic is part of an organized collection of related topics which can be delivered in different output formats.  For instance, you can organize the topics to become an instruction manual in PDF, online help, or HTML website.  That’s the lovely thing about DITA, the information is transferable across different mediums and can be reused and distributed among several different projects. 

Topic-based writing is advantageous to both the user of your products and the writing team itself. 

A topic has the following characteristics:

  • Meaningful titles
  • Ability to stand along from other content
  • Logical organization
  • Links to other topics with related information

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DITA supports topic-based writing.  DITA stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture.  The “Darwin” part refers to the hierarchy and structure of parent topics and child topics.  The Information Typing refers to the three types of topics:  task topics, conceptual topics, and reference topics.  Or at least that’s the way I surmise this.  Architecture refers to the mapping and organizing of many topics housed in one building of sorts. 

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Lisa Logan has been writing professionally since she was a student at North Carolina State University where she earned her bachelor and master’s degrees. She started out writing profile articles for the N.C. Literary Review, interviewing various North Carolina authors of fiction. Her own creative works were published in several issues of the Raleigh News and Observer’s short fiction section Sunday Reader. Lisa’s passion for screenwriting led to freelancing for a national screenwriter’s magazine Creative Screenwriting in which she writes features, interviewing Hollywood screenwriters, high-level film producers, directors, and actors. Lisa’s work can also be found in Our State magazine and Our State’s now defunct sister publication NC Signature.