XML Based Scientific Data Management Facility

Abstract

The World Wide Web consortium has developed an Extensible Markup Language (XML) to support the building of better information management infrastructures. The scientific computing community realizing the benefits of XML has designed markup languages for scientific data. In this paper, we propose a XML based scientific data management facility, XDMF. The project is motivated by the fact that even though a lot of scientific data is being generated, it is not being shared because of lack of standards and infrastructure support for discovering and transforming the data. The proposed data management facility can be used to discover the scientific data itself, the transformation functions, and also for applying the required transformations. We have built a prototype system of the proposed data management facility that can work on different platforms. We have implemented the system using Java, and Apache XSLT engine Xalan. To support remote data and transformation functions, we had to extend the XSLT specification and the Xalan package.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA409303

Entities

People

  • M. Zubair
  • P. Mehrotra

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Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Communities
  • Computer Science
  • Data Management
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Electronic Mail
  • Infrastructure
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Platforms
  • Prototypes
  • Space Sciences
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • World Wide Web
  • Xml

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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Database Systems and Applications