November 22, 2002 Patricia Galloway School of Information XML and Digital Assets November 22, 2002 Patricia Galloway School of Information
Management of digital objects “Mindful” management using existing systems Schedules Existing systems and assets Applications/software standardization Desktop standardization Mindful practice
Future systems Internal repository Access to permanent repository OAIS DSpace Access to permanent repository Center for American History? LBJ Library? Knowledge Gateway repository? Potential sharing via grid
XML family XML document: data container XML Schema: defining data types (DTD) XSL: defining styles (CSS) XSLT: transforming documents Xpath: describing the document tree
XML as digital object container Vehicle for digital objects DTD vs XML Schema : data types XML markup Marking up the object Marking up metadata (“wrapper”) XSL stylesheet XSLT transformation language
Object storage, management, use XML and storage XML “native” databases Conventional relational databases XML and management Direct use of metadata elements Internal addition of metadata elements XML and use XSL/CSS formatting and display XSLT and repurposing