Review of
Authoring Subsystem
Anthony Yip
Daniel Gindikin
David Guttendorf
Grace Ritter
Jon Rosenberg
Roger Hong
Roger Smith

Outline of this Presentation
Current System vs. Proposed System
Requirements
Overview of Use Cases
In Depth look at the IETM-ize Use Case
Activity Diagrams
Object Model
The Amazing Document Object
Major Open Issues

Current System vs. Proposed System
All paper
Authored by manufacturers and assemblers.
Annotations as memos
New versions
Expensive
Standardized IETMs
“Black Box” model
Stages of a Document
Digital Document
IETM
Quality Control
Electronic Annotations

Requirements
Core Requirements
Convert Technical Manuals into IETMs
Allow for Annotations to the IETMs
Quality Control
Additional Requirements
Know thy user (ease of use).
Networked PC capable of running the required software
Adequate storage space.  IETMs can get rather large.
Version Control System (special thanks to Workflow)
System modularity
The network should be both reliable and secure

Overview of the Use Cases (10)
Digitize Document
Distribute Scanning Task
Edit Digital Document
Edit IETM
IETM-ize
Issue Annotation
Merge IETM
Verify Digital Document
Verify IETM
View IETM

In-Depth Look:  IETM-ize

Activity Diagram

Object Model
Joint effort with Workflow
We deal only with Documents
Workflow owns the parent class
And now, for your viewing pleasure…

The Amazing Document Object

Major Open Issues
Dependencies and What We Will Provide
Workflow, Workflow, Workflow.
We will provide IETMs and a means by which to view them.
Access to the IETMs will be achieved through Workflow’s Database.
Other Issues
AIMSS 4.0 and ACS are not compatible.
We’re still looking for new OCR software that provides the same functionality as ACS.

Summary
The Authoring Subsystem will provide a means to convert a Technical Manual into an IETM.
The system will be usable by those without training specific to the Technical Manuals or the existing authoring process.

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