This report provides the following recommendations for harmonizing S1000D and SCORM:
- Revise the S1000D specification to accommodate SCORM metadata.
- Explore other options for handling complex interactions.
- Develop an S1000D/SCORM-conformant data management and publishing environment.
- Ensure that the Manpower, Personnel, Education and Training (MPT&E) commands mandate
conformance of content with both S1000D and SCORM.
- Ensure that acquisition documents specify collaboration between the technical and
the training community during development of technical content.
- Ensure that technical and training representatives on a technical content development
effort understand each other's positions and the basic requirements for both S1000D
and SCORM.
- For maximum reusability, write S1000D technical content with dual use in mind and
then subject it to the technical content verification and validation process.
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Using S1000D and SCORM to Integrate Technical and Training Data
17 November 2005
Author: Wayne Gafford
The acquisition and management of DoD technical data and its related technical training
content are not synchronized. Despite the potential for a significant amount of
data reuse between technical data and technical training data, the purchase and
development of this related content is not managed by a common standard. The S1000D
technical data standard can impose a highly organized acquisition and management
process to technical training content, an area normally associated with SCORM. However,
SCORM as a reference model does not impose name, identification, and structure standards
on training data source files. SCORM does not guide a developer’s choice of content
and format. S1000D is a markup specification that brings naming, identification,
and structure to content. The standard deliberately guides the user to name, identify,
and structure content. Leaving technical data and training data acquisition and
management in separate environments will not reveal potential life cycle cost savings
and production efficiencies. The DoD technical training community can benefit from
the use of S1000D on its source data with improved configuration, greater reuse,
and less integration. This paper will discuss the logic for using S1000D to name,
identify, and structure DoD technical training content.
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