The DITA sandbox
At the moment this site is made up of (non-work-related) DITA things I'm playing around with, experimenting with, accumulating, etc.
The one I find most interesting, and which is also perhaps least useful, is my music specialization. I'm currently playing around with it to generate information about my own music collection. The full list of everything on my iPod is available,
stored as a ditamap, with information about bands, albums, etc stored as DITA topics. Note that it may take a few seconds to load, because it is formatting a fairly large XML file; to view the page, you will need a browser that can process XSLT.
Any of the actual code development related to the music specialization, and any other projects I'll be playing with, is stored over at the DITA Open Toolkit project page at SourceForge. The music specialization itself can be found on the download page for that project.
A bit about myself and my work: my name is Robert D. Anderson, and I work at at IBM on XML and SGML
authoring tools (primarily for DITA). I'm the lead architect of the
DITA Open Toolkit, and co-editor of the DITA 1.1
and 1.2 Specifications at OASIS. I have a linkedin profile here, although at present I do not use it very often. If you'd like to contact me for any reason, that's probably the best route, other than googling for an email address that isn't listed here...
I've written or been involved with a series of articles on DITA:
In addition, I've presented or will be presenting on DITA and the DITA Open Toolkit at these venues:
- October 27, 2009: Lavacon in New Orleans (http://www.lavacon.org/)
- May 3-6, 2009: The STC Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://conference.stc.org/)
- November 6-8, 2008: The 2008 Lavacon Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii (http://www.lavacon.org/)
- August, 2008: Remote presentation for RTP and Austin DITA User Groups
- November, 2007: Silicon Valley DITA Interest group (recording of the webcast on Extending the DITA-OT is available here: http://www.ditausers.org/tutorials/open_toolkit/anderson/)
- October 28-30, 2007: The 2007 Lavacon Conference in New Orleans, LA (http://www.lavacon.org/)
- October 4-6, 2007: DITA 2007 in Raleigh, NC (http://www.brightpathsolutions.com/pages/conf/2007dita/index.html).
Updated presentation materials for DITA 2007 can be found here.
- May 13-16, 2007: The STC Conference in Minneapolis, MN
- March 23-25, 2006: DITA 2006 in Raleigh, NC
Personal notes --
- I'm fascinated by languages; I speak Russian, dabble in Swedish, and would love
to learn Icelandic (or most any other language, really).
- Until a recent move to the East Coast, I spent quite a lot of my time volunteering and/or listening to music at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, MN.
- If I had to pick one CD that has changed my life, it would be the $5 Nordic Roots sampler of music from Northside Records.
- My cat is quite spoiled (he can be found here atop his homemade cat furniture). I've also helped to spoil the cats of several friends, some of whom were nice enough to provide portraits for that page.
- My favorite way to waste time online is to read the following online comics: