Ryffine DITA Author Training
Hands-on workshops designed for teams with no prior DITA experience. Build real confidence in structured authoring — from fundamentals to advanced implementation.
Request Training InfoOverview
Ryffine offers 16-hour and 24-hour workshops aimed at preparing participants to work in a DITA-based authoring environment. Both versions assume no experience with DITA and use a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises to prepare participants to work with confidence.
Both courses include the following modules:
- Introduction to the Tool Chain
- Introduction to Structured Authoring and DITA
- Introduction to Your Tool Set
- Content Strategy for Topic-Based Authoring
- DITA Information Architecture
- Linking Strategies
- Content Reuse
- Publishing
- End-to-End Workflow
Ryffine DITA Essentials
16 HoursDITA Essentials focuses on core structured authoring concepts and practical DITA fundamentals. Participants build operational competence by learning to create properly structured topics, organize content with maps, and work confidently within a DITA authoring environment.
The course is designed to prepare teams to begin contributing effectively in a DITA-based workflow, providing the operational readiness needed to get started without overwhelming implementation complexity.
Ryffine DITA Complete
24 HoursDITA Complete includes all content covered in DITA Essentials and extends significantly deeper into information architecture. Participants explore more advanced reuse mechanisms, navigation strategies, and scalable map structures.
By diving deeper into information architecture, this course equips participants to make informed structural decisions that support maintainable, scalable, and long-term DITA implementations.
Learning Objectives
By the end of training, participants will be able to do the following:
| Objective | Essentials | Complete |
|---|---|---|
| Summarize the business case for moving to DITA and structured authoring | ✓ | |
| Describe structured authoring principles and core DITA concepts for topics, maps, elements, attributes, linking strategies, and content reuse | ✓ | ✓ |
| Describe and explain content strategy for topic-based authoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Describe and use key features of your authoring tool for authoring, editing, and publishing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create and organize concept, task, and reference topics using basic elements and attributes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Organize content using maps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Describe and apply content reuse using shared topics and conref | ✓ | ✓ |
| Describe how the DITA-OT works and create basic transformation scenarios for HTML and PDF | ✓ | ✓ |
| Produce structured content within a collaborative workflow from planning and authoring through publishing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apply basic metadata to topics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Describe and apply map strategies for submaps and bookmaps | ✓ | |
| Describe and apply markup to maps for topic groups and navigation titles | ✓ | |
| Describe and apply markup to maps for combining topics for HTML output | ✓ | |
| Describe and apply markup to maps for dynamic navigational linking | ✓ | |
| Describe and apply content reuse using keys and conditional profiling | ✓ |
Additional Modules
Organizations may select from the following specialized modules to tailor the training to their tools, workflows, and implementation goals. These modules go beyond the 16- and 24-hour trainings.
Advanced Publishing
- Advanced transformation configuration
- Custom CSS styling and templates
- Automated build pipelines and advanced authoring tools
Introduction to Git
- Version control fundamentals
- Repository workflows
- Best practices for managing structured content in Git
Lightweight DITA
- LwDITA and its relationship to the DITA standard
- Business case for LwDITA
- LwDITA in the oXygen ecosystem
Deep Dive into oXygen Projects
- Advanced project setup, configuration, and customization
oXygen Content Fusion for Reviews
- Key features of Content Fusion
- Managing collaborative review tasks
- End-to-end collaborative review
DITA & AI
- Generative AI in structured content ecosystems
- Emerging use cases in DITA authoring
- Positron AI
Deep Dive into Content Reuse
- Advanced content reuse patterns
- conref, conkeyref, keys, and conditional profiling
Minimalism
- Minimalist writing and editing principles
- Align content with user goals and personas
- Design content for findability
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us to discuss training options, scheduling, and pricing for your team.
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