User:Rrostie/Interactive Electronic Technical Documentation

Interactive Electronic Technical Documentation(IETD)

To define an IETM and IETP:

An Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) is a technical manual (e.g. maintenance, user, training, operations, etc) prepared or "authored" in digital form on a suitable medium, by means of an automated authoring system, designed for electronic screen display to an end-user.

An IETM possesses the following characteristics:

The format and style of the presented information are optimised for screen presentation to ensure maximum comprehension; that is, the presentation format is frame-oriented and not page-oriented.

The elements of technical information constituting the technical manual are so interrelated that a user's access to the required information is facilitated to the greatest possible extent and is achievable through a variety of paths.

Display devices, including computers and laptops, can function interactively (as a result of user requests and information input) in providing procedural guidance, navigation directions and supplemental information.

Screen presentations can include material derived from data stored in textual, graphical, audio, or video form in a relational data base which is composed of logically connected, bud randomly accessible IETM data elements.

S1000D defines an IETP as a set of information needed for the description, operation and maintenance of the Product, optimally arranged and formatted for interactive screen presentation to the end user on an electronic display system.

IETP includes conditional branching mechanisms, which can be based on user feedback. Parameters are evaluated at run-time and their values can depend on context and specific user input.

The aviation industry, as well as the US Armed Forces have changed a lot of their technical documentation from paper manuals to an electronic format, that is not just an on-screen version of the old textual manuals, but use the interactive and three-dimensional capabilities of web pages and similar technologies.