Michael Priestley

Michael Priestley is co-editor of the DITA Specifications, an IBM representative on the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, and a member of the DITA Focus Area Editorial Board.

He is one of DITA's original architects at IBM, leading the team in Toronto in 1995 that identified concept, task, and reference as the three principal DITA information types.

Michael is an experienced information architect and XML architect, and is currently coordinating taxonomy initiatives across several IBM communities.

Read Michael's lucidos blog, where he writes:

It's a bit of a weird feeling: one eye on the future, as the Technical Committee expands DITA's capabilities for book publishing and conditional processing; and one eye on the present, making sure that DITA still fits into best practices and processes that can deliver improved quality, not just reduced cost. DITA is good technology, but all it can do is reduce the pain of doing the right thing: it can't do the right thing for you.

Michael has made a number of important presentations on DITA, including one with recorded audio:

• A Very Short Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture: DITA. Presented at the Toronto DITA Users Group.
• An Introduction to Darwin Information Typing Architecture: DITA Presented at the STC 2006.
• An Introduction to Darwin Information Typing Architecture: DITA Part 1 Video file (WMV). Webinar recorded by PTC, 2005.
• An Introduction to Darwin Information Typing Architecture: DITA Part 2 Video file (WMV). Webinar recorded by PTC, 2005.

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