[DDI-users] Storing XML

[Andrew Dzhigo]

Thank you for your reply. I will definitely take a look at the Virtual Data Center web site.
Since you have already done some research on eXist and Xindice, could you, please, share with me 
your opinion of these two systems?

With regards,

Andrew Dzhigo
Applications Programmer
Cultural Policy and the Arts
National Data Archive (CPANDA),
Princeton University
adzhigo@princeton.edu
1-609-258-7561

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark R. Diggory" <mdiggory@latte.harvard.edu>
Date: Monday, November 4, 2002 11:44 am
Subject: Re: [DDI-users] Storing XML

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> This is a shameless plug for a system we have been developing.
> 
> We are working on an Opensource Digital Library System that 
> utilizes the 
> DDI are its primary storage XML format. This system is primarily 
> for 
> Social Science Reseach data such as that published at the ICPSR. 
> It 
> provides Indexing/Searching capabilities and server side data 
> analysis 
> tools for subsetting and manipulating the datasets. We are 
> preparing for 
> a software release towards the end of this year.
> 
> Feel free to find out more about this project at the following sites:
> 
> http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
> http://www.thedata.org
> http://thedata.sourceforge.net
> 
> We have a couple production systems running at Harvard. This is an 
> older 
> version of the "Virtual Data Center". But will be upgraded to our 
> release version once it is completed.
> http://vdc-prod.hmdc.harvard.edu
> 
> -Mark Diggory
> Project Manager / Software Engineer
> Harvard MIT Data Center
> http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
> 
> p.s. We currently archive the DDI's in a custom repository backed 
> by 
> Postgresql. I have been researching eXist 
> http://exist.sourceforge.net 
> or Xindice as a possible future Repository Implementations and 
> have some 
> rudimentary Tests/Implementations in the works.
> 
> 
> Andrew Dzhigo wrote:
> 
> >Hi, all
> >
> >I am an applications programmer for the Cultural Policy and the 
> Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA). Here at CPANDA we use DDI DTD 
> to create XML codebooks for the datasets we archive.
> >
> >With the number of datasets growing we are now facing the problem 
> of storing and managing our XML files. At this stage of 
> development we are investigating the possibilities of using some 
> sort of XML-aware database management system. Currently, I am 
> considering Xindice system (formerly dbXML) developed by Apache 
> Software Foundation as a possible tool for our needs. However, I 
> would very much like to know how other developers address the 
> similar problem. What tools, database management systems and 
> languages do they use?
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >With regards,
> >Andrew Dzhigo
> >Applications Programmer
> >Cultural Policy and the Arts
> >National Data Archive (CPANDA),
> >Princeton University
> >adzhigo@princeton.edu
> >1-609-258-7561
> >
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