S1000D and S-Series
Publication Module
Definition
What Publication Module Means
A publication module is a table of contents with authority. It names which data modules make up a given manual and in what order, so the manual itself is generated rather than maintained. Nothing is duplicated into it.
This is what makes the same content serve several deliverables at once. A procedure written once can appear in an operator manual, a maintenance manual, and a training publication, each assembled by its own publication module, each staying current automatically when the underlying module is revised.
Also written: PM, pub module
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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.
CSDBThe managed repository at the center of an S1000D program, holding every data module once and assembling publications from them on demand.
S1000DThe international specification for producing technical publications from a common source database, used across aerospace, defense, land and sea programs.
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