1. HarperCollins

2. Agenda Content Creation Process What is DITA?
What is DITA Open Toolkit?
What does RSuite do?
Demo
Manuscript to ICML: Word -> DITA -> ICML
Workflow Engine
InDesign
Code – Java, XSLT, XQuery, Java APIs
“Groundbreaking” Topic

3. Current Book Composition Process
Step 1: Editorial
Manuscript
docx
Step 2: Composition
InDesign
indd

4. New Book Composition Process
Step 1: Editorial
Manuscript
docx
Step 2
Generate
DITA XML
xml
Step 3
Generate ICML
icml
Step 4: Composition
InDesign
indd
Download
ICML
Transform 1
Transform 2

5. What is DITA? Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Is an XML Data Model for Authoring and Publishing
Topic Oriented
Each Topic is a separate XML file
DocBook is Book Oriented, more Complex, One Big XML file
DITA Initial Spec in 2001
DocBook Initial Spec in 1991
Core DITA Topic Types:
Concept
Task
Reference
Specialization: Subtyping – New Topics derived from existing

6. What is DITA?
Topic must have at least: Id attribute in root, title, and body.
DITA MAP stitches topics together.

7. What is DITA? Eliot Kimber Norm Walsh Post from October 2005:
Norm Walsh Post from October 2005:
Four key technical differences where DITA may be “better” than DocBook:
A topic-oriented authoring paradigm.
A cross-referencing scheme that's more practical than XML's flat ID space.
SGML's conref, reinvented.
An extensibility model based on "specialization".
Demo DITA using Oxygen

8. What is DITA Open Toolkit?
Open-source publishing system for DITA
Provides multi-channel output
Uses Pipeline Processing Approach using:
Java
XSLT
Rendering Engine (FOP, RTF, etc.)
DITA 4 Publishers
Demo DITA OT using command line and Oxygen

9. What does RSuite do? Centralized Repository for “all” artifacts
Provides:
Workflow
DITA Transforms
Manuscript to DITA
DITA to ICML
Multi-channel Output – PDF, ePub3, InDesign
Role Based Security
Distribution:
FTP to Commercial Printer
E-Commerce Sites

11. SAN Drives RSuite Tomcat Server MarkLogic Node 1 MarkLogic Node 2
500 GB – 100 GB / Disk
Non XML Disk 1
Non XML Disk 2
Non XML Disk 5
Non XML Disk 4
Non XML Disk 3
RSuite
Tomcat Server
MySQL
Disk
Temp Directories
1. XSLT Transforms
2. File Uploads
MarkLogic Node 1
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Disk 1 - Forest 1
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 2
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB
MarkLogic Node 2
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Disk 1 - Forest 3
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 4
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB
MarkLogic Node 3
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Disk 1 - Forest 5
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 6
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB

12. 1 2 3 SAN Drives RSuite Tomcat Server MarkLogic Node 1
500 GB – 100 GB / Disk
Non XML Disk 1
Non XML Disk 2
Non XML Disk 5
Non XML Disk 4
Non XML Disk 3
Feature Request:
Use XA Transaction:
File Copy
MySQL Update
Metadata Update
RSuite
Tomcat Server
MySQL
Disk
Temp Directories
1. XSLT Transforms
2. File Uploads 1 2
MarkLogic Node 1
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Disk 1 - Forest 1
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 2
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB
MarkLogic Node 2
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Disk 1 - Forest 3
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 4
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB
MarkLogic Node 3
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Disk 1 - Forest 5
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 6
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB 3

13. RSuite Demo? Upload Transforms PDF, ePub ICML to InDesign
MarkLogic Config

14. Code? Java jBPM – Biz Process Management Framework
Ivy – to manage plugin dependencies
Ember.js
XQuery
Groovy
DITA-OT XSLT
Plugins
RSuite API Docs

15. Groundbreaking Opportunity
Unleash the Tombstones!
All Content can be reused for product development

16. DITA to RDF Transform! Semantically Linked DITA
Link to Internal and External Content
DBPedia:
NY Times
Dublin Core
US Census
Semantic Links create a network of Knowledge
Enables Inferencing (ML8)
Uses MarkLogic Triple Index

17. Why RDF? RDF compliments DITA Contains facts about DITA topics
Facts are stored in the Triple Index
Facts are used to:
Link internal and external documents
Derive other facts (inferencing)
Provide higher quality search result
RDF is efficient storage and linking mechanism
MarkLogic turns RDF into Triples

18. Why Triples?
Triple is a Subject-Predicate-Object (SPO) structure used to represent a fact.
Lets computers derive facts from other facts without human involvement.
Example:
Ted lives in Chicago, Illinois
Ted lives near Wrigley Field
Ted has a roommate called Sam
Ted and Sam go to Wrigley Field to watch games
From these facts:
Sam lives in Chicago
Wrigley Field is in Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is in Illinois
Sam and Ted both live in the US
Etc…

19. How to add Triples? Facts need to be curated. Data provenance
Editors can add facts to DITA Topic Docs.
New world of Semantic Publishing
Eroni Kumana

20. Profiles in Courage Example
Add Facts to Chapter 4 DITA XML:
“Profiles in Courage” Primary ISBN value is
John F. Kennedy is the Author Of “Profiles in Courage”
John F. Kennedy is a Person
John F. Kennedy was at the Solomon Islands in August 1943
Eroni Kumana is a Person
Eroni Kumana was at the Solomon Islands in August 1943
Eroni Kumana rescued John F. Kennedy
Eroni Kumana is mentioned in Chapter 4, Profiles in Courage
Semantic Event – NY Times News Feed
Eroni Kumana died on August 2, 2014
Event Triggers Automatic Pub:
CMS automatically publishes “Profiles in Courage” web page with snippet to the specific Chapter referencing Eroni Kumana.
New web page also has link to like and/or purchase book.

21. Generate Transient RDF
Book Process Steps
Step 1: Editorial
Manuscript
docx
Step 2
Generate
DITA XML
xml
Step 3
Generate ICML
icml
Step 4: Composition
InDesign
indd
Download
ICML
Transform 1
Transform 2
Word 2 DITA
DITA 2 ICML
Step 3
Generate Transient RDF
rdf ML
Triple
Index
Transform 3
DITA 2 RDF

22. SAN Drives RSuite Tomcat Server MarkLogic Node 1 MarkLogic Node 2
500 GB – 100 GB / Disk
Non XML Disk 1
Non XML Disk 2
Non XML Disk 5
Non XML Disk 4
Non XML Disk 3
RSuite
Tomcat Server
MySQL
Disk
Temp Directories
1. XSLT Transforms
2. File Uploads
MarkLogic Node 1
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
MarkLogic Node 2
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
MarkLogic Node 3
4 CPU - 2 Core / CPU
Index
Index
Index
Triples
Disk 1 - Forest 1
600 GB
Triples
Disk 1 - Forest 3
600 GB
Triples
Disk 1 - Forest 5
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 2
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 4
600 GB
Disk 2 - Forest 6
600 GB
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB
Disk 3 - Backup
300 GB

23. De-Silo-ize Custom APIs are used to communicate between silos. DAM
Web Host Provider
ISBN DB
ebook Store
Published Docs
CMS

24. Hub Spoke – No Silos
Uses standardized RDF “connectors” to communicate.
DAM
ISBN DB
Web Host Provider
ebook Store
Published Docs
CMS

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