An extensible automated protein annotation tool: standardizing input and output using validated XML

Motivation: There is a frequent need to apply a large range of local or remote prediction and annotation tools to one or more sequences. We have created a tool able to dispatch one or more sequences to assorted services by defining a consistent XML format for data and annotations. Results: By analyzing annotation tools, we have determined that annotations can be described using one or more of the six forms of data: numeric or textual annotation of residues, domains (residue ranges) or whole sequences. With this in mind, XML DTDs have been designed to store the input and output of any server. Plug-in wrappers to a number of services have been written which are called from a master script. The resulting APATML is then formatted for display in HTML. Alternatively further tools may be written to perform post-analysis.

Information access law and disclosing of information by joint-stock companies in Brazil: open data and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard

The strategic management of information plays a fundamental role in the organizational management process since the decision-making process depend on the need for survival in a highly competitive market. Companies are constantly concerned about information transparency and good practices of corporate governance (CG) which, in turn, directs relations between the controlling power of the company and investors. In this context, this article presents the relationship between the disclosing of information of joint-stock companies by means of using XBRL, the open data model adopted by the Brazilian government, a model that boosted the publication of Information Access Law (Lei de Acesso à Informação), nº 12,527 of 18 November 2011. Information access should be permeated by a mediation policy in order to subsidize the knowledge construction and decision-making of investors. The XBRL is the main model for the publishing of financial information. The use of XBRL by means of new semantic standard created for Linked Data, strengthens the information dissemination, as well as creates analysis mechanisms and cross-referencing of data with different open databases available on the Internet, providing added value to the data/information accessed by civil society.

Enhancing composite Digital Documents Using XML-based Standoff Markup

Document representations can rapidly become unwieldy if they try to encapsulate all possible document properties, ranging from abstract structure to detailed rendering and layout. We present a composite document approach wherein an XMLbased document representation is linked via a shadow tree of bi-directional pointers to a PDF representation of the same document. Using a two-window viewer any material selected in the PDF can be related back to the corresponding material in the XML, and vice versa. In this way the treatment of specialist material such as mathematics, music or chemistry (e.g. via read aloud or play aloud ) can be activated via standard tools working within the XML representation, rather than requiring that application-specific structures be embedded in the PDF itself. The problems of textual recognition and tree pattern matching between the two representations are discussed in detail. Comparisons are drawn between our use of a shadow tree of pointers to map between document representations and the use of a code-replacement shadow tree in technologies such as XBL.

An overview of the MPEG-7 description definition language (DDL)

This paper presents an overview of the MPEG-7 Description Definition Language (DDL). The DDL provides the syntactic rules for creating, combining, extending and refining MPEG-7 Descriptors (Ds) and Description Schemes (DSs), In the interests of interoperability, the W3C's XML Schema language, with the addition of certain MPEG-7-specific extensions, has been chosen as the DDL. This paper describes the background to this decision and using examples, provides an overview of the core XML, schema features used within MPEG-7 and the extensions made in order to satisfy the MPEG-7 DDL requirements.

Xmds: eXtensible multi-dimensional simulator

A software package that efficiently solves a comprehensive range of problems based on coupled complex nonlinear stochastic ODEs and PDEs is outlined. Its input and output syntax is formulated as a subset of XML, thus making a step towards a standard for specifying numerical simulations.

Extensible metadata repository for information systems

Thesis submitted to Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Computer Science

PExIL: Programming Exercises Interoperability Language

Several standards appeared in recent years to formalize the metadata of learning objects, but they are still insufficient to fully describe a specialized domain. In particular, the programming exercise domain requires interdependent resources (e.g. test cases, solution programs, exercise description) usually processed by different services in the programming exercise life-cycle. Moreover, the manual creation of these resources is time-consuming and error-prone leading to what is an obstacle to the fast development of programming exercises of good quality. This paper focuses on the definition of an XML dialect called PExIL (Programming Exercises Interoperability Language). The aim of PExIL is to consolidate all the data required in the programming exercise life-cycle, from when it is created to when it is graded, covering also the resolution, the evaluation and the feedback. We introduce the XML Schema used to formalize the relevant data of the programming exercise life-cycle. The validation of this approach is made through the evaluation of the usefulness and expressiveness of the PExIL definition. In the former we present the tools that consume the PExIL definition to automatically generate the specialized resources. In the latter we use the PExIL definition to capture all the constraints of a set of programming exercises stored in a learning objects repository.

Traductor de especificaciones XML de redes de Petri coloreadas a un lenguaje para la resolución de problemas de optimización

Este proyecto presenta el desarrollo de una aplicación que permite traducir Redes de Petri Coloreadas diseñadas en CPN Tools a un lenguaje para la generación de ficheros de entrada a un simulador/optimizador de Redes de Petri Coloreadas. De esta manera se podrán optimizar modelos creados en CPN Tools ya que esta herramienta no facilita la optimización. Todo el proyecto se ha realizado en C++.

Generació de documents en application/pdf a partir d'una estructura XML

Aquesta memòria vol mostrar que la tecnologia XML és la millor alternativa per a afrontar el repte tecnològic existent en els sistemes d'extracció d'informació de les aplicacions de nova generació. Aquests sistemes, d'una banda, han de garantir la seva independència respecte dels esquemes de les bases de dades dels quals s'alimenten i, de l'altra, han de ser capaços de mostrar la informació en múltiples formats.

Estudi de com OWL amplia la funcionalitat d'RDF i aquest, a la seva vegada, d'XML

Aquest document explica com és aquesta web actual o sintàctica, basada en llenguatge HTML, i perquè no treu més profit de la ingent quantitat d'informació que conté. També explica d'una manera detallada quina és l'alternativa que la comunitat informàtica proposa per tal de superar aquests inconvenients.

Generació, actualització y consulta de bases de dades relacionals utilitzant XML (Servei d'emmagatzemament de dades a internet)

El que es vol, en aquest projecte, és generar una sèrie d'eines que permetin a una entitat externa d'interactuar en una base de dades relacional sense necessitat de coneixements específics sobre bases de dades. Quan es diu interactuar, s'hi inclou des de la creació de la base de dades fins a la consulta de la informació, passant per l'actualització d'aquesta base de dades.

Estudi de com OWL amplia la funcionalitat d' RDF i aquest, a la vegada d' XML.

L'objectiu general d'aquest treball és conèixer el concepte de web semàntica i aprofundir-hi, i també entendre els principis bàsics d'algunes de les tecnologies en què recolza: les ontologies, l'XML, l'RDF i l'OWL.

XML/XQuery Languages : estat de l'Art

Aquesta memòria vol introduir el lector dins del camp de l'XML, fent referència al mateix llenguatge XML i a l'anomenada família XML, formada per totes les tecnologies i els estàndards que estan relacionats amb l'XML i que en fan un llenguatge realment potent i versàtil.

Sistemes de BD XML natius : estat de l'art

Aquest projecte avalua l'estat actual dels sistemes de BD:XML natius que permeten desar i recuperar documents XML, i alhora els compara amb les solucions clàssiques adoptades per als SGBD relacionals, els quals afegeixen extensions (XML, per exemple) al capdamunt del model relacional.

Bases de dades XML natives per gestionar documents MPEG-7

Aquest projecte estudia fonamentalment el llenguatge XML i l'ús que se'n fa com a mitjà per a compartir informació entre sistemes i aplicacions diferents, gràcies a la utilització del format text com a base de creació.