Members login for a five-minute tutorial on the three basic information types, concepts, tasks, and references, plus a short introduction to ditamaps.

Reference presentations:

• A Very Short Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture: DITA Powerpoint.
  Presented at the Toronto DITA Users Group. Michael Priestley, IBM.
• An Introduction to DITA Camtasia Flash video with table of contents.
  Presented at the STC 2006 conference. Michael Priestley, IBM.
• Authoring DITA Camtasia Flash video with TOC
  Webinar originally recorded by PTC, 2005. Michael Priestley, IBM.
• Information Architecture Camtasia Flash video with TOC
  Webinar originally recorded by PTC, 2005. Michael Priestley, IBM.
• An Introduction to DITA: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture Explained
  Presented at the Open Source Developers' Conference 2005. Deborah Pickett.
• Implementing DITA: From Single, Standalone Documents to Doc Sets Built in the Products they Describe
  Presented at the DITA 2007 conference on 2007-02-07. Anna van Raaphorst, VR Communications.
• The Three Core Topic Types: Concept, Task, Reference
  From the STC Online SIG, Hyperviews Online, on 2006-08-16. Marcia Poulsen.
• Introduction to DITA topic-based authoring with Adobe FrameMaker 8
  Max Dunn, Silicon Publishing.

Getting Started with DITA Tutorial from Lone-DITA (PDF).

Supporting files for DITA Tutorial from Lone-DITA (Zip file).

Watch a five-minute tutorial on topics, concepts, tasks, reference, and ditamaps.