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Title
XSMapper: a Service-oriented Utility for XML Schema Transformation
Published in
ERCIM News Magazine. Num. 64, January 2006 - 2006
Abstract
A typical case of low-level interoperability, particularly frequent in the Digital Libraries world, is the federation of collections via metadata conversion. Roughly speaking, a federation consists of a number of repositories, each with its own format, which agree on a common format for metadata exchange. Any metadata record, must then be transformed into the common format before it is sent as the result of a request. In this note, we report on a solution to the metadata conversion problem based on semantic mappings. Although it was developed to federate collections in a specific project, XSMapper is domain-independent and can be used in any context where an XML schema transformation is required.


BibTeX
@misc{issi_web:id:162,
        title =  "XSMapper: a Service-oriented Utility for XML Schema Transformation",
        author = "Manuel Llavador Campos and José H. Canós-Cerdá",
        booktitle = "ERCIM News Magazine. Num. 64, January 2006",
        year = "2006",
        eprint = "http://issi.dsic.upv.es/publications/archives/",
        url = "http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/canos.html",
        abstract = "A typical case of low-level interoperability, particularly frequent in the Digital Libraries world, is the federation of collections via metadata conversion. Roughly speaking, a federation consists of a number of repositories, each with its own format, which agree on a common format for metadata exchange. Any metadata record, must then be transformed into the common format before it is sent as the result of a request. In this note, we report on a solution to the metadata conversion problem based on semantic mappings. Although it was developed to federate collections in a specific project, XSMapper is domain-independent and can be used in any context where an XML schema transformation is required."
}