**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) 1. Task - a series of steps to achieve an outcome 2. Concept - objective definitions, rules, and guidelines 3. Reference - containing specific, fact-based information 4. Glossary Entry - defining a single sense of a given term 5. 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. **** # More ## Source [Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture?wprov=sfti1) ## Related - [[Information Types]] - [[Information Mapping]] - [[XML]]