Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
Sonovision produces DITA XML-based documentation for commercial clients. Our end-to-end authoring architecture delivers technical information faster and cheaper than traditional documentation. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating ‘information-typed’ modules at a topic level and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals on the Web. Adopting DITA, improves productivity, content accuracy, content repurposing, and ultimately reduce costs.

DITA documentation has many advantages:

• Reuse content
• Reuse topics in different projects
• Generate summaries and overviews automatically from structured content
• Repurpose content
• Deliver content in multiple formats
• Re-assemble topics freely to produce customised output
• Target information according to user type and user context
• Increase productivity
• Enable better collaboration for faster delivery
• Distribute work so writers can work in parallel, thanks to topic-driven architecture
• Provide for easy topic reuse without any further manipulation