1. November 22, 2002 Patricia Galloway School of Information
XML and Digital Assets
November 22, 2002
Patricia Galloway
School of Information

2. Management of digital objects
“Mindful” management using existing systems
Schedules
Existing systems and assets
Applications/software standardization
Desktop standardization
Mindful practice

3. 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

4. XML family XML document: data container
XML Schema: defining data types (DTD)
XSL: defining styles (CSS)
XSLT: transforming documents
Xpath: describing the document tree

5. 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

6. 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