Using Darwin Information Typing Architecture in ECM solution

This paper focuses on the principles of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard for storing structured content. Aim of the theses is to generally describe the possibilities of its integration into the ECM solution and, based on this knowledge, to design an appropriate procedure establishing DITA technology into the company's enterprise content management solution according to its specified requirements. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the concept of information architecture DITA, assumptions for its usage and the basic principles for creating DITA documents. DITA technology is compared to its alternatives and its future development is estimated. It discusses the general principles of DITA integration to ECM solutions. In the practical part, there is designed a suitable demonstration solution implementing DITA technology into the enterprise content management system based on a company's specified requirements. Under the proposal are compared tools for creating and editing documents and on the basis of the criteria is one of them appropriately chosen. The phases are further developed, thus forming a coherent view on the practical implementation of DITA. General conclusions and recommendations for companies that would be interested in establishing a standard DITA into their content management solutions are drawn in the final chapter.