S1000D
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S1000D is an international specification for the procurement and production of technical publications. It is an XML
specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information. It was initially developed by the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) for use with military aircraft
. The specification has since been modified for use with land, sea, and commercial equipment.
S1000D is maintained by the S1000D Steering Committee, which includes board members from ASD, the United States' Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), and the Air Transport Association (ATA), along with national industry and defence representatives from most of the countries currently using the specification.
The specification is free to download and use, although it is recommended that advice be sought on the best methods for implementing an S1000D repository.
(DDC) of human knowledge and an exaggeration of the ATA100 civil aviation system, and D stands for Documentation.
S1000D requires a document to be broken down into individual data items (called Data Modules) which can be marked with individual XML labels and metadata, and be part of a hierarchical XML structure. This permits the updating of single data items without necessarily changing the path down the XML tree which points to them. Knowledge so partitioned and classified can therefore be shared among many publications, and updating of items in the underlying S1000D (XML) document will automatically effect updating of the dependent publications.
An actual XML hierarchy must be designed specifically for each different knowledge domain.
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information. It was initially developed by the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) for use with military aircraft
Military aircraft
A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat:...
. The specification has since been modified for use with land, sea, and commercial equipment.
S1000D is maintained by the S1000D Steering Committee, which includes board members from ASD, the United States' Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), and the Air Transport Association (ATA), along with national industry and defence representatives from most of the countries currently using the specification.
The specification is free to download and use, although it is recommended that advice be sought on the best methods for implementing an S1000D repository.
What does it stand for?
The S stands for Specification, 1000 is inspired by the Dewey Decimal ClassificationDewey Decimal Classification
Dewey Decimal Classification, is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876.It has been greatly modified and expanded through 23 major revisions, the most recent in 2011...
(DDC) of human knowledge and an exaggeration of the ATA100 civil aviation system, and D stands for Documentation.
S1000D requires a document to be broken down into individual data items (called Data Modules) which can be marked with individual XML labels and metadata, and be part of a hierarchical XML structure. This permits the updating of single data items without necessarily changing the path down the XML tree which points to them. Knowledge so partitioned and classified can therefore be shared among many publications, and updating of items in the underlying S1000D (XML) document will automatically effect updating of the dependent publications.
An actual XML hierarchy must be designed specifically for each different knowledge domain.
Commercial S1000D Tools
- 4Dconcept Doc'Advance
- Absolute Data Group's R4i Suite
- Adobe Framemaker
- CORENA S1000D Solutions
- Cortona3D's Interactive 3D Technical Communication/Documentation Software
- EAGLE Publishing System (EPS S1000D Publishing)
- ENOVIA and 3Dvia Composer
- Crowell Solutions' S1000D Decision Point for Business Rule and BREX Validation
- HiCo ietdSuite
- InfoTrust Group TechSight/X S1000D Edition
- Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite
- Isselnord Simplicio
- PTC Arbortext
- SDL Contenta S1000D
- SDL LiveContent S1000D
- SDL Xopus
- SDL XML Professional Publisher (XPP)
- SiberSafe S1000D Edition
- STAR GRIPS
- Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter
- Synesis7
- UpTime S1000D suite
- Web-X Systems Product Suite
External links
Unofficial sites
- ADG S1000D resource page
- A DITA practitioner’s primer for S1000D
- Australian Technical Publications Working Group
- CDG S1000D Authoring, conversion and consultancy services
- Crowell Solutions S1000D Services
- Google S1000D Group
- S1000D Introduction
- S1000D User Information site
- Shufra S1000D training, implementation and consultancy