XML-Based Approach for Reporting and Exchanging Experimental Data Sets Using Metadata Model

摘要

Growing collaborative research projects prompted the development of metadata models for documenting voluminous data sets produced by experiments and computer simulations. Herein we demonstrate the usefulness of a recently proposed metadata model for reporting and exchanging experimental data sets. The object-oriented metadata model is expressed in terms of XML schemas, which allows researchers to exchange their data sets with XML metadata explaining how data were obtained. The XML metadata can also be used to generate automatically reports which present data comprehensively. The present approach, which fully takes advantage of XML technologies, helps pave the ways for the acceptance of metadata in earthquake engineering.