ASD S1000D and ATA are the 2 primary standards for producing publications for the aviation industry.  These publication standards are very different in both the way publication data is structured the rules that are imposed.  Some primary manufacturers, and their suppliers, have traditionally employed ATA for their publications but are now using ASD S1000D for upcoming models.  However, these companies need to maintain their older publication.  Therefore, there is a need to have publication management software solutions that are flexible enough to allow efficient management, authoring, QA and publishing of both ATA and ASD S1000D whilst ensuring that the rules for both standards are enforced.

The workshop will discuss the problems with developing a single software solution to handle disparate publication specifications.  Included in the discussions will be modularization of monolithic publication document, reuse of modules across multiple publication types, handling disparate rules in a dynamic manner and different styling techniques to produce specified publication outputs such as printable material, Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETP) and palmtop (PDA) output from a single source.  The workshop will finish with a discussion on how dynamic rules and flexible software design can be used to encompass any publication standard, including none aviation based standards, without changing the underlying software architecture.