This section contains information on how to determine what it would take to create your DITA and DITA Open Toolkit authoring and production system.
"The word is out" among professional communicators and information development and publishing organizations about the benefits of using DITA and DITA Open Toolkit to produce high-quality, reusable, structured communications. However, for many individuals and organizations simply "knowing about" DITA and the Toolkit are not enough. Not having answers to two key questions prevent them from moving from the "active interest" stage to the "assessment and adoption" stage. These key questions are:
- "What would it take to put together a DITA-based authoring and production system that would scale as my needs expand?"
- "How can I get started with DITA at a 'hands-on' level without first making an expensive, time-consuming, long-term commitment that I may come to regret?"
A key goal of this chapter is to help answer those questions, and to provide pointers to additional sources of information.