Darwin Information Typing Architecture - an open standard of information types
DITA is an XML-based specification for types of documents in a topic-oriented repository of information… say like this whole Notes database.
It uses:
- Inheritance (hence “Darwin”) through specialization
- Transclusion
- A common HTML-like structure
- 5 Topics (types of pages)
- Task - a series of steps to achieve an outcome
- Concept - objective definitions, rules, and guidelines
- Reference - containing specific, fact-based information
- Glossary Entry - defining a single sense of a given term
- Troubleshooting - a condition that may require a remedy, including what may have caused it and possible remedies
- Maps - that turn a DITA collection into a publishable thing
- Metadata - like the properties in this Notion database, metadata can be associated with topics, and inherited between related topics
I find ”Troubleshooting” to be a really odd inclusion on this list as a distinct element from the rest. Troubleshooting would not seem to me like a topic worthy of inclusion on a list of 5 slices of knowledge. I suppose this is to do with the type of knowledge typically kept in these repos.
Source
Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Wikipedia