S1000D data modules that hold shared definitions once, such as parts, tools, warnings and terms, so thousands of procedures reference one source. A CIR centralizes the things many procedures refer to: part numbers, tools, consumables, warnings, and controlled terms. A procedure references the entry rather than restating it.

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CIR

Q: What does CIR stand for?

CIR stands for Common Information Repository. S1000D data modules that hold shared definitions once, such as parts, tools, warnings and terms, so thousands of procedures reference one source.

S1000D data modules that hold shared definitions once, such as parts, tools, warnings and terms, so thousands of procedures reference one source.

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What CIR Means

CIR stands for

Common Information Repository

A CIR centralizes the things many procedures refer to: part numbers, tools, consumables, warnings, and controlled terms. A procedure references the entry rather than restating it.

The payoff is that when a part number or a hazard wording changes, it changes in one place and every reference follows. The cost of skipping it is a library where the same warning is worded eleven ways and nobody can prove which version a technician actually read.

Also written: common information repository

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Data Module

The unit of content in S1000D: a self-contained piece of information, valid on its own, stored once in the CSDB and identified by a data module code.

Applicability

The machinery that records which content applies to which configuration, so one library can serve a fleet whose members are not identical.

Defined Term

A word or phrase given a stipulated meaning for the purposes of a document, binding wherever it appears and managed rather than retyped.

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