S1000D is Creeping outside the Defence Arena

This is just a short entry to bring to your attention what I am sure is going to become a more common occurance.

It has been interesting to see the gradual migration of the S1000D specification to projects other than those in the Defence indiustry. For years I have been advocating this movement, first of all based on Def Stan 00-60 within the UK, and now, of course, with Issue 2 of S1000D itself. Both of these 'versions' of S1000D have the expanded structures required by projects other than those involved in Aerospace work.

In recent weeks my attention has been drawn to a 'civilian' project embarked upon by Lloyds of London - the people involved in defining how to determine if a vessel is seaworthy or not.

Mekon are involved in this and have issued a press release which outlines what has been achieved and the drivers for taking the S1000D route. The project included the migration of their existing SGML based solution into S1000D XML.

Anyone else doing this?

I am very concious of the fact that I am sometimes not best placed to discover other non military areas which are actually using S1000D (I do know about one or two who are seriously considering going down this route). So this is in the lines of another challenge (thanks for the response to the last one by the way) - So:

• do you know of any other project using S1000D?
• what were the drivers for using S1000D?
• have the benefits been realised?

As usual, any feedback would be very interesting.