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DITA is a rapidly emerging standard for authoring technical information in XML.
It enables companies to more easily create, reuse, and exchange structured content,
while minimizing the total cost of ownership of tools. In this session Yas Etessam,
Structured Information Consultant from Blast Radius XMetaL (www.xmetal.com), will
provide an introduction to what DITA is and how it works, explain its growing
significance to technical communicators, and demonstrate DITA-based authoring.
If you are interested in keeping abreast of the latest technologies and best
practices for single-source writing, this session is for you.
Yas Etessam, Blast Radius XMetaL
Yas Etessam is a Structured Information Consultant at Blast Radius specializing in
XML-based content solutions.
Yas has an extensive background in XML, SGML and their related technologies. She is
an active participant in the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
technical committee. Her domain expertise includes the application of XML in government,
intellectual property and knowledge base applications.
Since 2000, Yas has worked with enterprise clients including Microsoft, HP, Cisco
and WIPO to develop XMetaL authoring solutions. Prior to Blast, Yas worked on the
System Development team at Statistics Canada maintaining critical monthly processes
and supporting aggregation and publishing of economic and environmental data.
Yas holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from McGill University and has been certified
as an IBM XML developer.
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