Dynamic Engineering Information Traceability Based on DITA Standard
Year: 2010
Editor: Sándor Vajna
Author: Štorga, Mario; Marjanovi
Page(s): 10
Abstract
To provide architecture for ‘smarter’ authoring, producing, and delivering engineering information, possibilities for implementation of the open standard - Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) in product development traceability process are explored. DITA divides informational content into self-contained topics that can be reused in different deliverables of engineering process. The extensibility of DITA permits organizations to define specific information structures and still use standard tools to work with them. By using the DITA architecture, the ability to create information in small, reusable components that can be automatically assembled for different purposes – both for different types of documents, as well as for different types of users depending on the needed context, has been explored. As a case study for this research, aftermarket services and product support in company that is integrated onshore and offshore drilling and well services contractor have been selected. Dynamic publishing solution that is capable of automatically publishing to multiple types of media, including print, Web and other forms has been developed. As the result of the case study, important perspectives and requirements for traceability of engineering information fragments have been established, and company’s service information management procedures have been improved and standardised.
Keywords: Traceability of Engineering Information, DITA, Dynamic Publishing