Over the last twelve months, more and more Air Manufacturing suppliers have been scrambling to give an update on when they can comply to these acronyms. Consider this your cheat sheet to what it all means and where you can obtain more information and assistance! The Acronyms: ATA Spec 1000BR – The Business Rules guidance
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This month ADG has been celebrating 20 years of delivering software and services to Air, Sea, Land and Space Programs. My inbox continues to fill up with the same question from my customers and colleagues – what next for ADG and OneStrand? I believe what they are really asking is “what will the next 20
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Why use a SCORM-compliant system? SCORM compliance ensures interoperability between e-learning content, authoring tools and learning management systems. It means content will run and behave the same, on different Learning Management Systems. Taking it one step further, combining SCORM with the S1000D specification allows training developers to re-use technical content that is stored within an S1000D repository (like our R4i Common Source
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When speaking about online and offline connection with S1000D Viewer software, the specification defines that the end user can either connect directly to the S1000D Common Source Database (online) or connect to data pre-published to CD, DVD or a network drive (offline). When connecting directly to the CSDB in an online mode through an IETP viewer, the end
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It is correct to assume that all viewers are different in how they operate. All vendors, when developing their S1000D IETP Viewers will generally work to the requirements matrix detailed in chapter 6.4.2 of the S1000D Specification. This functionality matrix outlines the functionality that can be found in many different levels of IETP Viewer. Some vendors may
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After taking off like a rocket in January with the announcement that Virgin Galactic had selected the R4i Software Suite for authoring, publishing and delivery of their technical information, Absolute Data Group continues to soar with the latest press announcement that Lufthansa Technik is embracing OneStrand AIR for authoring technical documents to the ASD S1000D
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On Monday the 6th of February 2017, the S1000D Working Group released v4.2 of the ASD S1000D Specification. Below is a summary of the key changes that have been implemented into Issue 4.2. Business Rules and BREX The most obvious thing to me was the focus around Business Rules (BRs), BR Decision Points (BRDPs), the automatic
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Welcome to Absolute Data Group’s first blog for 2017, it’s only January and we are off like a rocket! This year will be particularly special to the Brisbane Team as we approach ADG’s 20th Anniversary in November! Our company’s first project was to take legal data stored in SGML from a database and produce a
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As 2016 comes to a close, I was chatting with our Sales and Marketing Team about how quickly this year has gone… I know all people over 21 say that right! When we started discussing what the team had achieved this year, it became apparent why the year literally disappeared! Here is a peak at
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When delivering content for an S1000D Project, the data modules need to be: well-formed content if delivering an XML S1000D Project valid to the S1000D Schema version that has been assigned to your S1000D Project valid to the project BREX if one has been provided Your S1000D Authoring Tool should guide you through what is required to
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