Time to Stop Dabbling

This is the presentation I gave with my colleague, John Badger at the Aircraft Commerce Flight Operations Conference in Frankfurt on the 4th December 2013

Transcript

1. TIME to stop dabbling getting the right content to the right tablets 4th December 2013 the 7th Annual Flight Operations Conference - Frankfurt
2. product name old company name new company name image credit: zach dischner on flickr
3. if you want it bad:
4. if you’re happy to wait:
5. its all about the USE CASE image credit: the white house on flickr
6. image credit: jeff laitila on flickr TIME it’s about you did SOMETHING
7. SMART-O-METER PDF HTML XML PAPER 2nd Century BC China iSpec 2200 > 2300 1993 Adobe Systems SGML, xHTML, ePub
8. THE BENEFITS OF SMART CONTENT image credit: dirk huijssoon on flickr your documents <meta data> <m eta data> <meta data> <meta data> <meta data> <meta data> <meta data>
9. SMART(ER) SEARCH image credit: cgp grey on flickr
10. INCREMENTAL PUBLISHING 1st revision - full publish 200MB 2nd revision - insert single page 100KB 3rd revision - wording change 100KB atomic updates
11. INCREMENTAL PUBLISHING 1st revision - full publish 200MB 2nd revision - insert single page 100KB 3rd revision - wording change 100KB CHEAPER, FASTER, BETTER atomic updates
12. ANNOTATION PERSISTENCE image credit: jeff laitila on flickr
13. NEXT GENERATION : SPEC 2300 image credit: jeff laitila on flickr
14. <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../../../stylesheets/FCOM.xsl"?><FMSECT CHG="U" EDITABLE="T" FTYPE="SystemsDescription" KEY="Intro" PARENT="FCOM-777-FMATR" REVDATE="00000000"><TITLE ATA="0">Intro</TITLE> <DIV ID="fcomdivid00000"><TITLE ATA="0">AUTHORIZATION PAGE</TITLE> <P JUST="LEFT">This Saunders Airlines Flight Manual contains all the approved Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) operating procedures and performance data as revised and/or modified, and includes any appropriate data or information from revisions dated or numbered:</P> <P> ! <TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" CELLPADDING="5" CLASS="NONE" ID="fcomtableid00001"><TBODY><TR VALIGN="TOP"><TD ALIGN="RIGHT" CLASS="NONE" VALIGN="TOP"> <P JUST="LEFT">777-224</P> ! </TD><TD ALIGN="CENTER" CLASS="NONE" VALIGN="TOP"> <P JUST="LEFT">Revision #40</P> ! </TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" CLASS="NONE" VALIGN="TOP"> <P JUST="LEFT">Dated 04/17/09</P> ! </TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </P><P JUST="LEFT">This manual meets or exceeds all requirements of the [A/C] approved Airplane Flight Manual in accordance with F.A.R. 121.141.</P> <DIV ID="fcomdivid00002"><TITLE ATA="0">COPYRIGHT NOTICE</TITLE> <P JUST="LEFT">Copyright © 2013 Saunders Airlines, Inc. All rights reserved.</P> <P JUST="LEFT"> <I>No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purposes without the express written permission of Saunders Airlines, Inc.</I> ! </P> <P JUST="LEFT">Saunders Airlines personnel desiring to publish excerpts from this manual are requested to notify the [a/c type] Fleet Manager, Flight Standards and Training, prior to publication.</P> </DIV> <DIV ID="fcomdivid00003"><TITLE ATA="0">REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK</TITLE> <P JUST="LEFT">This Flight Manual is the result of the combined efforts of Flight Standards and Flight Operations. All flight crews are encouraged to comment on the contents of this manual, since its sole purpose is to provide you, the Flight Crew, with an accurate and effective tool to better help you do your job.</P> <P JUST="LEFT">Suggestions, critiques, comments, and corrections should be in writing and addressed to the Lead Line Check Airman in your crew base or to the respective Fleet Manager in Flight Standards. The boardmail address for each crew base is the three letter identifier of the base followed by the letters CP (i.e. IAHCP). The boardmail address for each fleet manager is IAHPS.</P> <P JUST="LEFT">Your input is both desired and encouraged. All Flight Manuals are designed to be living documents, readily adaptable to new and better ideas, and easily revised.</P> </DIV> ISN’T XML AUTHORING COMPLICATED?
15. UMM... NOT REALLY #WYSIWYG
16. THE TROUBLE WITH PDF PDF image credit: jeff laitila on flickr
17. WHY WOULD YOU INVEST IN NEXT GENERATION AIRCRAFT, THEN USE ARCANE TECHNOLOGY LIKE PDF? image credit: jeff laitila on flickr
18. how many uncontrolled PDF DOCUMENTS ARE IN circulation in your company? question
19. how many uncontrolled PDF DOCUMENTS ARE IN circulation in your company? question hint how many uncontrolled IPADS & OTHER TABLETS ARE IN circulation in your company?
20. how many uncontrolled PDF DOCUMENTS ARE IN circulation in your company? question hint how many uncontrolled IPADS & OTHER TABLETS ARE IN circulation in your company? ANSWER: SHED LOADS
21. TIME now is the time to wake up to SMART CONTENT image credit: jeff laitila on flickr
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