Proposals for a new flexible and extensible XML-model for exchange of research information

Abstract

In this paper a new flexible extensible XML-model for the exchange of research documentation is proposed, and a working XML-exchange model is described. The working model is limited to documentation produced by researchers. The ideas, XML-model and construction proposed and used in the working model are extensible, and can be expanded to the whole field of research documentation, and to other fields as well.

The paper is partly based on a report to be completed in May 2002. That report will provide a full description of the model, which is not possible in a short paper presented at the CRIS2002 Conference. The report aims to set out the groundwork and facts, to document the proposed newXML-exchange model, and to contribute to the further discussion in euroCRIS in respect of data exchange between different systems.