S1000D and S-Series
CSDB
Definition
What CSDB Means
CSDB stands for
Common Source Database
The CSDB holds the single authoritative copy of every data module, illustration, and publication module on a program, along with their status, versions, and relationships. Publications are assembled from it rather than stored in it, which is the whole point: one change to a module reaches every publication that references it.
It is more than storage. A CSDB manages the lifecycle of each object, enforces the program's business rules, tracks applicability, and provides the audit trail that answers which version of what was issued when. A folder structure with good naming conventions is not a CSDB, however disciplined the team maintaining it.
Also written: common source data base, common source database, S1000D CSDB
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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.
S1000DThe international specification for producing technical publications from a common source database, used across aerospace, defense, land and sea programs.
CCMSA system that manages content as components rather than documents, tracking each piece, its versions, its relationships and where it is used.
BREXThe data module that encodes a project's S1000D business rules in machine-checkable form, so conformance can be validated rather than reviewed by eye.
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