19th
International CODATA Conference
Category: Interoperability
XML related Data Exchange from the Test Machine into the Web-enabled Alloys-DB
M. Nagy, H.H. Over, and P. Hähner
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission – Institute for Energy, Petten,
The
The engineering sciences place considerable reliance on electronic systems to
produce, store and process experimentally measured material
data. One of the
Test data, which are kept in XML format and sent by RTD project partners via the World Wide Web to the Petten Server are stored within the Alloys-DB XML database module. There they can be checked, updated and validated on-line before they are uploaded into the database. Then they can immediately be retrieved and evaluated by all project partners. A pilot test with the new XML related data exchange module from test machine into Alloys-DB has currently been started within the European ‘TMF Standard’ RTD project.
The use of XML standards is already a very promising step into the
next generation Web, often referred to as the Semantic Web. It aims at machine-processable
information that will enable true interoperability between sort specific databases,
different in structure and language. Data on the Semantic Web is characterized
by semantic metadata called ontologies that facilitates
sharing and interoperability between systems and languages. It is our aim for
the future to realize this step and thus to enable