DITA Practical Application: From DITA to Dynamic On-Line Publishing Into a Portal

This presentation is a case study featuring the Financial Accounting Foundation, Financial Accounting Standards Board. The project is codification (US GAAP) The entire solution was implemented in about 4 months with a small but entirely remote international team. It is a real showcase for XML in practice. It is using: XML, DITA, DocBook, XSL, AJAX, Oracle XDB and Workflow as the integration hub, automation tool, and process manager. The system is the entirely DITA based standardization platform for the new (to be) authoritative codified US-GAAP. The presentation will show how this system is being utilized for finalizing the codification and enabling an internal review process for the created codification. In 2008 the system will be opened to the public for a general Codification review. From 2009 on, the data will become the authoritative source for the US-GAAP.

Details of the Solution:

The implemented solution is utilizing the following components:

• DITA based component content management (backend CMS)

o e:CLS (empolis)

o Worklflow: Ovitas Business Process Portal (Ovitas, WorkPoint)

o Authoring: Arbortext (PTC)

• Dynamic Publishing: versioning/releasing of components executes automatic publishing to mechanism for the authors/editors inside the backend CMS (Ovitas Business Process Portal)

o the web-site (when released),

o publishable components: any “self-contained information unit”

o done through a machine triggered workflow, graphical configuration

• Information Portal back-end CMS

o Web-CMS/Portal: Content Server (Fatwire)

o Intelligent search: e:ias (empolis)

o Database: Oracle XDB