A Method on Single Source Publishing for Music in DITA

Abstract

Federated Media Publishing means to distribute the single source content through multimedia after integrating various media manners, which is the trend of digital publishing. DITA is designed to produce multiple deliverable formats from a single set of DITA content, but it cant be directly used in Federated Media Publishing for not coping well with multimedia except for text and image. This paper takes music as an example to discuss the method of integrating multimedia into DITA. The specialization facility is used to integrate MusicXML DTDs into DITA and a solution is putted forward to provide appropriate rendition distinctions according to audio and five-line staff. Experiments show the solution is efficient to extend DITA for dealing with multimedia, which can be used in federated media publishing.