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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. These events are dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, its main developers, and the community. During the past decade, we hosted 9 DITA OT Day events, with the 10th one coming soon on the 1st of February. For each event, we recorded lots of sessions and then made them available online.

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