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Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies

Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies

José Carlos Ramalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) and Ricardo Queirós (CRACS & INESC-Porto LA, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 258
ISBN13: 9781466626690|ISBN10: 1466626690|EISBN13: 9781466627000
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2669-0
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Ramalho, José Carlos, Alberto Simões, and Ricardo Queirós. "Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies." IGI Global, 2013. 1-258. Web. 11 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2669-0

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Ramalho, J. C., Simões, A., & Queirós, R. (2013). Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies (pp. 1-258). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2669-0

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Ramalho, José Carlos, Alberto Simões, and Ricardo Queirós. "Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies." 1-258 (2013), accessed January 11, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2669-0

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As new concepts such as virtualization, cloud computing, and web applications continue to emerge, XML has begun to assume the role as the universal language for communication among contrasting systems that grow throughout the internet.

Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies addresses the functionality between XML and its related technologies towards application development based on previous concepts. This book aims to highlights the variety of purposes for XML applications and how the technology development brings together advancements in the virtual world.

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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgment
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Chapter 1
XML Standards and Dialects
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Chapter 1
José Paulo Leal (University of Porto, Portugal), Ricardo Queirós (CRACS and ESEIG/IPP, Porto, Portugal)
XSLT is a powerful and widely used language for transforming XML documents. However, its power and complexity can be overwhelming for novice or infrequent users, many of whom simply give up on using this language. On the other hand...
An Example-Based Generator of XSLT Programs
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Chapter 2
Alexandre B. Augusto (University of Porto, Portugal), Manuel E. Correia (University of Porto, Portugal)
In this chapter, the authors propose and describe an identity management framework that allows users to asynchronously control and effectively share sensitive dynamic data, thus guaranteeing security and privacy in a simple and...
A Secure and Dynamic Mobile Identity Wallet Authorization Architecture Based on a XMPP Messaging Infrastructure
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Chapter 3
Ricardo Queirós (CRACS and ESEIG/IPP, Porto, Portugal), José Paulo Leal (University of Porto, Portugal)
Several standards have 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...
Making Programming Exercises Interoperable with PExIL
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Chapter 4
Daniela Morais Fonte (University of Minho, Portugal), Daniela da Cruz (University of Minho, Portugal), Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho, Portugal), Alda Lopes Gancarski (Institut Telecom, France)
XML is a widely used general-purpose annotation formalism for creating custom markup languages. XML annotations give structure to plain documents to interpret their content. To extract information from XML documents XPath and XQuery...
GuessXQ: A Query-by-Example Approach for XML Querying
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Learning Environments  (pages 77-77)
Learning Environments
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Chapter 5
José Janssen (Open Universiteit, The Netherlands), Adriana J. Berlanga (Open Universiteit, The Netherlands), Rob Koper (Open Universiteit, The Netherlands)
Specifications can be considered “hidden” technology: they are deployed in tools and applications without being directly visible. This poses a challenge regarding quality assessment of this type of technology. This chapter describes...
On Quality Assessment of Learning Technology Specifications
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Chapter 6
Eugenijus Kurilovas (Vilnius University, Lithuania & Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania)
This chapter analyzes the quality of XML learning object repositories. Special attention is paid to the models and methods to evaluate the quality of learning repositories. Multiple criteria decision analysis and optimization methods...
MCEQLS Approach in Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Quality of Learning Repositories
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Chapter 7
Ricardo Queirós (CRACS and ESEIG/IPP, Porto, Portugal), Mário Pinto (ESEIG/IPP, Porto, Portugal)
Recent studies of mobile Web trends show the continued explosion of mobile-friend content. However, the wide number and heterogeneity of mobile devices poses several challenges for Web programmers, who want automatic delivery of...
Using Device Detection Techniques in M-Learning Scenarios
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Databases and Repositories
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Chapter 8
Carlos Aldeias (University of Porto, Portugal), Gabriel David (University of Porto, Portugal), Cristina Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal)
Data warehouses are used in many application domains, and there is no established method for their preservation. A data warehouse can be implemented in multidimensional structures or in relational databases that represent the...
Preservation of Data Warehouses: Extending the SIARD System with DWXML Language and Tools
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Chapter 9
Ricardo André Pereira Freitas (Lusiada University, Portugal), José Carlos Ramalho (University of Minho, Portugal)
Due to the expansion and growth of information technologies, much of human knowledge is now recorded on digital media. A new problem in the digital universe has arisen: Digital Preservation. This chapter addresses the problems of...
New Dimension in Relational Database Preservation: Using Ontologies
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Chapter 10
João Rocha da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal), Cristina Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal), João Correia Lopes (University of Porto, Portugal)
This chapter consists of a solution for the management of research data at a higher education and research institution. The chapter is based on a small-scale data audit study, which included contacts with researchers and yielded some...
Managing Research Data at the University of Porto: Requirements, Technologies, and Services
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Chapter 11
Flavio Xavier Ferreira (University of Minho, Portugal), Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho, Portugal), Alda Lopes Gancarski (Institut Telecom, France)
This chapter presents an ongoing work in the context of the Portuguese Emigration Museum about information access in XML collections associated with semantic information. The museum asset is made up of documents of more than 8 kinds...
Using Semantics in XML Information Access: Application to the Portuguese Emigration Museum
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Compilation of References
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About the Contributors
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Index
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