Introduction to ASD S1000D for Technical Content Managers

The Introduction to S1000D for Technical Content Managers is designed to provide an introductory understanding of what is the S1000D specification and how this can be implemented into a project. On completion of this training, you as the learner will only be at the start of your S1000D journey and will need to consolidate the learnings in the workplace. There should be sufficient information to start the process of implementation.

This training is aimed at Technical Data Managers, Technical Authoring \ Writing Team Leads, Integrated Product Support Practitioners, and Technical Publications Managers.

Estimated Course Duration is 3 hours.

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand the S1000D Specification
• Describe the Documentation Process
• Identify the requirements for Information Generation
• Understanding the fundamentals of Authoring
• Describe Applicability.
• Understand and explain S1000D Information Management.
• Understand and Explain Data Module Codes
• Understand and Explain Information Control Numbers
• Explain Version Control
• Understand and Describe Optimisation and Reuse
• Understand and Describe Zones and Access
• Describe the purpose of Information Sets
• Apply the knowledge learnt to identify the SNS and Information Codes exercise

To consolidate some of the learnings provided through out this course, there will be some course exercises that will require access to the S1000D Issue 5.0 Specification.

S1000D is a specification that has been designed specifically for technical publications for the aviation and defence industries. Although the specification has been developed for these industries, the use of S1000D in other industries is also true. How this specification can be used in any industry may be limited by your own imagination.

In this course you will be introduced to S1000D to start you on your journey of using S1000D. This course will not identify any specific software solution that could be considered for the project.

The course will look at the information provided in the 3500 pages of the S1000D specification and help you to understand what is involved to use S1000D for the project. You will start with the basic introduction to the specification and continue through to what types of publications you need to consider for the final deliver.

Many of the points that are included in the course may be incorporated into your organisation. The core difference is that we document the information for S1000D to formalise the information. mm

As stated, this is the start of your journey and TIM Consulting hope the help you through this process. Make sure that you have a copy of the S1000D Specification, if you don’t already have this its available from the S1000D website under downloads.