Talk:Interactive electronic technical manual

Is this accurate? I'm most positive the connection with Mincom LinkOne does not exist. Possibly some time in the past 17 years, but not today and not anytime recently.

Dennisgw Comments:
I am not sure what the above comment really refers to. To say that any linkage as such between Mincom LinkOne and, I assume, S1000D, does not exist is open for discussion. Mincom LinkOne does not in any way promote itself as an S1000D application. That aside, given that S1000D covers a much broader aspect of electronic document production than does LinkOne in respect to document structure, version and content control, the CSDB and so forth, Mincom LinkOne does have the functionality to display documents, or IETM, authored, managed within and published from an S1000D compliant CSDB and management system.

My experience tells me that S1000D Viewers such as the Inmedius Interact and ADG's R4i products actually read and display HTML versions of the IETMs published from their respective management systems. I believe the example bicycle book used to demonstrate S1000D is also in HTML (to be confirmed). On that basis, there is little to stop Mincom LinkOne being able to publish and display an S1000D compliant IETM as a Mincom LinkOne book. In our system, using the Inmedius S1000D Manager, we have established a means of exporting an S1000D compliant IETM and published it in Mincom LinkOne. It is therefore, from my perspective, suffice to say that Mincom LinkOne is not an S1000D compliant authoring, management and publishing tool, it is very much capable of publishing and displaying S1000D compliant data.

Given the current functionality of Mincom LinkOne, WinView and WebView versions, Mincom LinkOne could well be the better placed Electronic Publishing and Display tool to meet the requirements as listed in the Functionality Matrix of S1000D 4. It should also be noted that the functionality of Mincom LinkOne is in fact well advanced when compared to the limitations of the current S1000D Viewers, certainly those in my experience. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dennisgw (talk • contribs) 12:03, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Nonsensical sentences
I've removed two sentences that appear nonsensical: "It is also used by the Royal Netherland Air Force at the Apache Aircraft Institute of Technology in Maryland. The Richard Mark VII Missile is the most commonly used carrier of the IETM manuals." These sentences were previously removed and restored, but I think they should stay out. Clifford Anderson (talk) 19:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)