This is a glossary of Wiki Terms.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) - An architecture for creating topic-oriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways. The components of DITA include an architectural specification, a language specification, a set of DTDs and an equivalent set of schemas.
Database Publishing - The technology and practices used to import content (data) from a central source onto a print design template. Data sources include relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL, Access), XML files, tab delimited files, or mainframe. Print design templates include QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe FrameMaker.
Database publishing vendors such as MC Research (LinkUp) and EM Software (XData, mCatalog, etc) have presented these solutions for almost 15 years. In the past, database publishing was accomplished with plugins/extensions working with a desktop publishing product. More recently database publishing is being accomplished with server-side technologies working in concert with QuarkServer, InDesign Server, or proprietary technologies (PageFlex, for example). A newer synonym for this capability is called WebTop Publishing.
Digital Asset Management system (DAM) - Software used to maximize the value of digital media. Most Digital Asset Management systems allow users to organize, distribute, search and automatically transform assets in their collections of digital media.
Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) - A digital camera that uses a single lens reflex mechanism, which is the common analog camera mechanism.
DISC - Digital Image Submission Criteria (DISC) - A standard set of image and illustration submission guidelines for publication. Standard specifications include guidelines for size, resolutions, compression, color space and metadata. DISC is a working group of IDEAlliance that has been very active in promoting the usage of XMP for image metadata.
DOM (Document Object Model) - A standard, language-independent model that structures HTML and other related formats. JavaScript uses this model as a means of interacting with and manipulating the data of an Web document.
Drupal - A free and open source Content Management System (CMS) first developed by Dries Buytaert and continually developed and maintained by a community of developers. Drupal contains a core set of modules (or functionality) and supports 3rd Party extension of this functionality through contributed modules.
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