INTELLIGENT DOCUMENTATION STANDARDS

The Intelligent Documentation Management System (IDMS) was developed at
NASA Lewis Research Center to assist Project Managers in implementing
NASA's Software Management and Assurance Program's information system
documentation standard known as NASA-STD-2100-91 (NASA STD, COS-10300).
The standard consists of data item descriptions (DIDs), or templates, each
of which governs a particular component of software documentation. For
example, one DID governs the user's guide, another the quality assurance
requirements, and so on. The DIDs are hierarchically interrelated to one
another, forming a DID hierarchy, or inverted tree structure.

It is up to the Project Manager (PM) for a given project to determine which
of the DIDs apply to a particular project and which are not applicable.
Also, if any one of the DIDs grows too large to be comfortably embedded as
an in-line section of a parent document, the PM may roll it out as a
separate volume, but must maintain traceability between this volume and
its parent document. IDMS is a decision support system which automates the
process of tailoring the DID hierarchy.

IDMS, inventory number LEW-15589, is written in C-language for IBM PC
series and compatible computers running MS-DOS. The program requires at
least 5Mb of disk space and a VGA or EGA graphics display. The source code
will only compile properly with include files from the Vermont Views
software package (available from Vermont Creative Software, Richford, VT,
802/8487731); however, an executable is provided on the distribution
medium. The executable requires at least 64OK of RAM and MS-DOS v3.1 or
higher. Printing of IDMS produced documents requires WordPerfect v5.0, or
higher. The standard distribution medium for this program is a set of four
5.25 inch 1.2Mb MS-DOS format diskettes. The program price includes a copy
of the NASA STD package (COS-10300) diskette as well as the IDMS
documentation. Package price $300.

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