Systematic Documentation Lifecycle Management

On 14th of December our development team finished working on release of first public version of DITA Visual Specialization Manager.

DITA Visual Specialization Manager contains comprehensive modeling functions. In productivity area, it provides benefits in terms of lesser time, optimal quality of deliverables, and single-sourcing of the model by its ability to export DTD and XML Schema. The main features of this application are listed as follows:

• Wizard-based Visual Editor for DITA specializations with support of structural, domain and attribute specializations
• Import of existing specializations from DTD
• DITA model validation (checking for validity of specialization)
• Export of managed specializations to DTD or XML Schema
• Export of Specializations in the form of DITA OT plug-in
• Integration with version control

All these benefits and functionalities have been developed to give substantial support to Information Architects and Documentation Project Managers in designing and maintaining their DITA specializations. It is done by providing a wizard-based visual editor for DITA information
types. The development of these functionalities has been made possible through a mix of technological expertise and practical experience gained from various DITA projects.

Besides the standard commercial license for DITA Visual Specialization Manager, *instinctools offers a free-of-cost non-commercial license for development and maintenance of publicly available DITA Specializations and a time-limited evaluation license.

For first information on working with DITA Visual Specialization Manager for typical modeling tasks, we have provided tutorial videos for creating Model Projects, Shell DTDs, Structural and Domain DITA Specialization, and Export to DTD and DITA Open Toolkit on website: http://www.ditaworks.com/Vids.

Downloads for DITA Visual Specialization Manager (for evaluation and
non-commercial free-of-charge use) are available from http://www.ditaworks.com/dl.

For more information about DITA Visual Specialization Manager, please
visit http://www.ditaworks.com/modeling or write to info@instinctools.com.