Automated Audit of an S1000D Conversion: Quality Control of Aircraft Manuals Post Conversion
Data Conversion Laboratory Shares Details on an Enormous and Complicated Project Converting Legacy (Print) Content for the United States Air Force.
Background
A manufacturer working with the United States Air Force (USAF) needed a better way to update its PDF documents, which were published from SGML. Staff members were manually updating content in multiple places. It was time-consuming, impractical, and not scalable. Converting to extensible markup language (XML) using the S1000D international standard for technical manual publications was a solution.
It was the largest conversion of legacy content to be converted to the S1000D standard by the United States military, comprising hundreds of thousands of pages of the OEM manuals for an aircraft that the USAF uses. Post conversion, the USAF wanted an independent audit of its first-ever legacy conversion to S1000D.
Solution
Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) was selected to audit the resulting S1000D content. For the audit, DCL created automated software tools that saved the Air Force time and money and provided testing and feedback to assure accuracy and quality.
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