ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS STANDARD

GAMA ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS STANDARD
11. GLOSSARY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION TERMS
Aircraft Specific - Information that relates to a particular aircraft based upon any of several factors of
Effectivity, (i.e. manufacturer, model number, part number, serial number...)
Annotations - Comments created by the user and associated with a location within the text or graphic of an
electronic publication. Annotation place holders permit the viewing of previously saved annotations via a pop
up text display. From a selection list of annotations, the user can hyperlink to the particular location or range
of text where the annotation was originally defined.
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
11 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036- USA
(212) 642-4900
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a binary code representing alphanumeric
characters that permit the exchange of data between most minicomputers and personal computers utilizing
different operating systems.
ATA - Air Transport Association
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Washington, D.C. 20004-1707 - USA
(202) 626-4000
ATA Specification 100 - Air Transport Association's specification that provides guidance to the content and
format of aircraft maintenance publications.
ATA Specification 2100 - Air Transport Association's specification that establishes standards for the
authoring, interchange, delivery and use of digital data produced by aircraft, engine and component
manufacturers.
Authoring - Refers to the process of creating new information.
Authoring systems - Can include a wide range of systems from word processors to electronic publishing
systems.
Backtracking - The retrieval software's ability to keep track of prior screens viewed when a user departs to
other screen views. This allows the user to return to a limited number of stored prior views at a later time
during a search, usually through the use of a function key command or macro.
Bitmap Image - is a raster image made up of pixels, or dots, that are either black and white (bilevel), shades
of gray (gray-scale), or color. Windows Bitmap (BMP) is a popular format among PC software exchange
options.
BMP - (Bit MaP) Windows graphics format that may be device dependent or independent. Device
Independent BMP files (DIB) are coded for translation to a wide variety of displays and printers.
Bookless Publications - Electronic publications in that the information is maintained via a database of task
based elements that do not require the information to be structured in books. The ATA Specification 2100's
use of SGML and SFQL based retrieval systems are an example of Bookless Publications.
Bookmarks - A bookmark is a place holder that marks the current view. Bookmarks allow the user to identify
a particular location in the text that can be directly accessed in future sessions.
Boolean Search - A search method used to access information in a database by specifying search criteria
based upon Boolean operators such as AND, OR and NOT. Boolean operators help to create a true or false
filter to narrow the scope of information to be retrieved.
Browse / Browsing - Method of locating information in a database by utilizing either a table of contents or
moving through the document by using its logical structure.
Button - Buttons are click-on icons that appear throughout windows programs in such places as toolbars and
dialog boxes.
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