How does DITA help tech writers?

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) makes large document writing more efficient and flexible to reuse across different types of content deliverables.  Chris Benz’ article “What is DITA and Why Should You Care?” in Learning Solutions Magazine, explained the perfect scenario where DITA was used to save time and money for a training course.

“In a test project for the DITA L&TC (Learning and Training Content) Specialization, a team at IBM studied content reuse in an existing training course.  They discovered that 50% of the course content had been copied from the product documentation.  Using the Specialization, they were able to automate much of that reuse, not only avoiding the cost and potential errors of manual copying and pasting, but also providing an efficient way to synchronize content updates between product documentation and training materials, and saving on the cost of translating essentially the same content twice.”

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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.