Charles Angione, TechPubs' CTO, presents an overview of current trends in aviation technical content management. Entitled "Migrating from a Print-Centric to Topic-Centric World," you'll learn the dramatic impacts new data management technology is having on aviation content management, regulatory compliance, flight operations, and other disciplines.
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Migrating from a print centric world - ATA 2012
1. Migrating from a Print-Centric
to Topic-Centric World
Charles Angione
2. Agenda
Operator View Today
Historical Approach to Content
Document Centric Model
The Journey Towards a Topic-Centric World
Topic Centric Model
Change Drivers and Value Opportunities
3. Operators Today
Flight Operations
– Looking for a common cross-fleet strategy.
– Manuals from OEMs
– Other manuals needed for operations
Competitive Industry
– Rapid Growth
– Mixed Fleets. Right plane for the route.
– Affiliate Airlines
Highly Regulated Industry
– Manuals form an integral part of the airline’s regulatory
compliance framework.
– Demonstrate compliance for different authorities with the same
operations data.
7. Document Centric Model
Book
• Optimizes cohesiveness of a domain area (e.g.
maintenance procedures, normal procedures)
Chapter • How is content ordered in a technical publication?
• Sect1
• Sect2 • Metadata tends to be focused on book (book
status, publish dates)
• Hierarchical structure models relationships within
Chapter content
• Sect1
• Sect2
• Intelligent markup enables data mining
• Sect3
8. The Journey
1986 1989 1994 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2004 2005 2007 2008
SGML
XSLT XHTML XInclude XSLT 2.0
HTML XML
1.0 1.0
XML
Namespaces
Schema
DocBook DITA
v4.1 v1.0
ATA iSpec Spec2300
2100 2200 v0.1
S1000D
9. Topic Centric Model
Topic
Metadata Content
Information
Language Identification Applicability Status Associations Typing
• Optimizes the content from user’s perspective
• Respond to what the user wants to do.
• Topic Centric metadata
• Taxonomical metadata - where do this information fit into a contextual structure(s)
• Stronger information typing
• Linking strategies developed for intro-object and inter-object relationships
10. Topic Centric Architecture
Delivery contexts
EFB Printing/PDF Web/Portal
Information Types
Descriptive Dispatch Performance Procedure
Included Domains
MathML Compliance
Common Structures
Metadata OASIS (CALS) table
11. Change Drivers and Value Opportunities
Authoring Efficiencies
– Parallel Authoring
– Distributed Authoring
– Encapsulation
– Content Reuse
Author
Translation
– Topics can be translated efficiently and less expensively while providing enough context
to produce a high quality translation. Support
& Training
Review, Routing and Approval
– Each unit of information can be read and reviewed independently.
Change Management
– Determine if content has changed from one release to another. Inspectors
Random Access Events/Google effect
– The Google effect is the tendency to forget information that can be easily found using
internet search engines such as Google, instead of remembering it.
– Enter an area of interest with enough context to understand content.
Crew
Distribution
– Distribute only what has changed
12. Q&A
Thank You!
Charles Angione
charles.angione@techpubsglobal.com