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DITA OT Day Recordings Overview

15 Jan 2026
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More than 10 years ago we started sponsoring the DITA OT Day events, events dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, it's main developers and the community. During this decade we hosted 9 DITA OT Day events, with the 10'th one coming soon on the 1'st of February. On each event we recorded lots of sessions and then made them available online.

A list with all presentations made in all the DITA OT Day events so far is available below:
Table 1. DITA OT Day Presentation Recordings
Year Presentation Presenter YouTube Views
2025 DITA-OT New Features and Enhancements Jarno Elovirta 123
2025 DITA-OT and DITA 2.0: who’s done what now? Robert Anderson 67
2025 Welcome to DITA-OT Community: Where Code meets Passion Justyna Hietala 52
2025 Replacement keyspace constructor for Open Toolkit Eliot Kimber 33
2025 Learning Assessment QTI Output Brianna Stevens-Russell 79
2025 Building an Ant based environment around the DITA OT Eric Sirois 46
2025 DITA-OT in the Age of AI: Bridging Technical Writing and Artificial Intelligence Amit Siddhartha 207
2025 Providing content to AI engines using DITA OT plugins Radu Coravu 201
2025 Automating Compliance Verification for Documentation Standards Using AI Alex Jitianu 187
2025 Single Source Publishing? Bury the Hatchet with DITA-OT Snehal Borole, Ritu Saxena 70
2024 Retrospective - DITA-OT improvements between 3.7 and 4.1 Jarno Elovirta 128
2024 Moving an HTML plugin to preprocess2: how scared should you be? Robert D. Anderson 91
2024 IBM Workflow Manager: an automated build environment Guillaume Delory 122
2024 From zero to DITA-OT hero – a story of a DITA-OT implementation in a small documentation team Justyna Hietala 470
2024 Cheap and Easy Cross-Deliverable Link Implementation Eliot Kimber 84
2024 Deploying and Maintaining DITA OTs in an Enterprise environment Eric Sirois 74
2024 DITA-OT plug-in for work instructions: Say goodbye to manual summaries and hello to accuracy and efficiency! Pieterjan Vandenweghe 120
2024 Publishing with iiRDS from DITA Marion Knebel 105
2024 DITA and Markdown Interoperability using new schema-provider extension mechanism John Kirkilis 126
2024 DITA-OT and ensuring DITA Map conversion Tejas Pradip Barhate 64
2024 PDF5-ML Plugin Update Tony Graham 63
2024 DITA-OT "How far can you go" Helmut Scherzer 75
2024 Using DITA Open Toolkit Project to Implement a Publishing Service in a Commercial Application Radu Coravu 313
2024 Syntax Diagrams: If you can't avoid them... Frank Wegmann 77
2024 Lessons Learned: Migrating DITA-OT For an IT Hardware Product Documentation Amit Siddhartha 55
2024 Search, Style and More - Extending DITA Bootstrap Jason Fox 106
2022 Making the migration leap: jumping across versions to the latest DITA-OT Robert D. Anderson 164
2022 Technical values Stefan Jung 171
2022 Avoiding duplicate effort with post-preprocessing Tim Grantham 141
2022 DITA and Markdown and Docker, oh my… John Kirkilis 461
2022 Scaling the DITA Open Toolkit for Enterprise Use Robert Anderson and John Kirkilis 197
2022 Simpler custom PDFs - The user perspective Roger Sheen 281
2022 Simpler custom PDFs - The technical details Jarno Elovirta 336
2022 Various DITA publishing ideas experimented on the Oxygen XML Blog Radu Coravu 225
2022 Pushing square pegs into round holes Jarno Elovirta 75
2022 Extending Doctales reveal.js with CSS Grid Lief Erickson 184
2022 Supercharging DITA-OT Webhelp creation Jang Graat 148
2022 Our experience helping the DITA-OT project as a commercial company Radu Coravu 55
2022 DITA HTML Styling via Bootstrap 5 Jason Fox 236
2019 Trim your toolkit with this one weird trick! Robert Anderson 104
2019 Running on someone else’s computer Jarno Elovirta 133
2019 Various useful Open source plugins to enhance DITA publishing Radu Coravu 199
2019 AH-WML DITA-to-Word Plug-in Tony Graham 272
2019 One file to rule them all (DITA Project) Jarno Elovirta 274
2019 Editing DITA Open Toolkit Project files George Bina 360
2019 All the cool kids are using JavaScript Jason Fox 154
2019 All the cool kids are using the Cloud Jason Fox 132
2019 The Art of doing nothing Jason Fox 248
2019 Case Study of Taxonomy and Search for DITA-OT Lief Erickson 115
2019 Generating metrics from your DITA project Radu Coravu 103
2019 Easy as pie PDF customizations using CSS Radu Coravu 123
2018 DITA-OT Website Survey Results Lief Erickson 50
2018 DITA, Gradle and Git: a small team approach to publishing Lionel Moizeau 721
2018 Comparison between the DocBook and DITA publishing systems Radu Coravu 1000
2018 Installing DITA-OT on macOS via Homebrew Roger Sheen 322
2018 Plug-in installation made easier Jarno Elovirta 416
2018 Meta DITA samples: testing around the edge cases Robert Anderson 97
2018 Step by step implementation of a DITA Open Toolkit plugin Radu Coravu 2800
2018 Unit Testing DITA-OT Plugin Extensions Jason Fox 243
2018 Overview of dita-semia open-source plugins for DITA-OT Patrik Stellmann 112
2018 A fast path for building data assets from DITA Francois Violette 64
2018 Apply your style guide rules during the publication Stefan Eike 137
2018 DITA-OT and DocOps Quick van Rijt 127
2018 Twisted XSLT Tricks: Making Column Switching Work for FOP Eliot Kimber 413
2018 Who are you calling “stale” ‽ Robert Anderson, Roger Sheen, Jarno Elovirta 49
2017 We shall call it... preprocess...2! Jarno Elovirta 226
2017 Accessibility in DITA-OT Robert Anderson 355
2017 DITA Validation and spell-checking Jason Fox 279
2017 Lightning Talk: Generating SVG syntax diagrams with plugins for all output formats Robert Anderson 269
2017 Lightning Talk: Managing a large scale build environment with 50+ custom plugins Robert Anderson 57
2017 Markdown support inside-out Jarno Elovirta 302
2017 Using CSS to style the PDF output Radu Coravu 5000
2017 Bootstrapping DITA - Customizing HTML output for modern web frameworks Roger Sheen 886
2017 Lightning Talk: Automatically Create Targeted Review Docs for your SMEs Leigh White 115
2017 Lightning Talk: Locale-Aware Sorting and Text Handling in the Open Toolkit Eliot Kimber 85
2017 Lightning Talk: DCQL - the Dita Cascading Query Language Jang Graat 204
2017 What are we missing? Where would you like to see us go? DITA OT Team 78
2016 Internationalization and the DITA-OT: Who does what? Robert Anderson 135
2016 Seven Open-Source DITA OT plugins developed by Oxygen Radu Coravu 491
2016 DITA-OT internals and future development plans Jarno Elovirta 130
2016 Lightning Talk: Simplified contribution process for the DITA-OT documentation George Bina 144
2016 Lightning Talk: Documentation Development(s) Roger Sheen 82
2016 Lightning talk: Gotcha! Upgrading PDF plugins to DITA OT 2.x Leigh White 155
2016 Using the Open Toolkit Through Docker Containers Eliot Kimber 481
2016 Large Scale Production Using Project Maps Youssef BENNANI 276
2016 Testing in DITA-OT Jarno Elovirta 54
2016 Codeblock Quality Assurance instead of Errata Jarno Elovirta 61
2016 DITA terminology management and checking Stefan Jung 411
2016 The use-cases for a "DITA to resolved DITA" transformation George Bina 222
2016 Long term DITA-OT planning Kris Eberlein 133
2015 What's new in DITA-OT Kris Eberlein 161
2015 DITA-OT Patterns and Anti-patterns Robert Anderson 125
2015 Lightning talk: Why "startcmd" is not your friend Robert Anderson 113
2015 Lightning talk: Markdown plugin Roger Sheen 467
2015 PDF generation with CSS Radu Coravu 594
2015 DITA-OT: Inside the black box Jarno Elovirta 147
2015 Lightning talk: DITA-OT ... reloaded! Helmut Scherzer 89
2015 Lightning talk: PDF5-ML Plug-in - features for practical use Toshihiko Makita 135
2015 Lightning talk: DITA Community Eliot Kimber 69
2015 Creating DITA-OT constraint/specialisation plugins Radu Coravu 694
2015 How to run DITA-OT Jarno Elovirta 556
2015 Lightning talk: Parameters annotations for DITA-OT plugins Radu Coravu 257
2015 Lightning talk: Publishing with DITA-OT - the CMS perspective Jean-François Ameye 237
2015 Lightning talk: Selling DITA with demo data Joe Golner 100
2015 Lightning talk: Multiple OT with Git Eliot Kimber 112
2015 Lightning talk: DITA-OT documentation update Roger Sheen 69
2014 Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit Kris Eberlein 987
2014 Looking under the hood of the DITA Open Toolkit Jarno Elovirta 811
2014 Lightning talk - Contributing to the Toolkit via GitHub Roger Sheen 244
2014 RNG to DTD and XSD using the DITA Open Toolkit Eliot Kimber 644
2014 Extending the DITA Open Toolkit: How crazy can you get? Robert Anderson 531
2014 Lightning talk - dita2rdf: from trees to triples Colin Maudry 389
2014 PDFs from the DITA Open Toolkit: The Easy and the Not So Easy Leigh White 1500
2014 DITA Open Toolkit PDF plugins without fuss, muss, or writing XSL-FO Jarno Elovirta 1200
2014 DITA Open Toolkit PDF generation with CSS Radu Coravu 1300
2014 Lightning talk - SCORM wrapper for DITA to SCORM Hal Trent 1000
2014 Lightning talk - Publishing DITA content re-used in different context in EPUB and Eclipse Infocenter by using DITA OT Gunthilde Sohn 358
2014 Lightning talk - Providing designers a flexible way to publish DITA content into Adobe InDesign Mark Poston 1400