For an upcoming post, I was going to link the acronym DITA to a good page for more information about the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, a DTD that is growing in popularity for representing technical information. Not for the first time, I did a Google search on “DITA” and laughed out loud upon seeing what the first hit was. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but suffice to say that I can’t tell you much anyway because I’m at work and the Websense filter won’t let me follow the link. Try it yourself: http://www.google.com/search?q=dita. (2020-02-23 update: at the time I wrote that, the number one hit was dita.net.)

5 Comments

By Erik Hennum on February 23, 2006 9:09 PM

Um, DITA enthusiasts (those of a topic orientation) often suggest searching for “DITA XML.” A modest demonstration of the need for semantic search?

By Bob DuCharme on February 23, 2006 11:41 PM

That would certainly imply different semantics for the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

Bob

By Eliot Kimber on February 24, 2006 7:28 AM

That is very funny. Could certainly make the time spent on the DITA TC conference calls pass a little more quickly….

By Norman Walsh on February 24, 2006 10:30 AM

For better or worse, I tend to attach DITA to it’s Wikipedia page when I mention it. In fact, I use links to Wikipedia in constructing the “subject index” page for my site, but that’s a different topic altogether :-)

By Bill Trippe on February 26, 2006 10:02 PM

And she’s Marilyn Manson’s main squeeze, which, somehow, makes it even better.