Digital Symposium Collection 2000

ASSISS: An Active Semi-Structured Scientific Information Sharing System E. Shek, G. Kaestle,, and S. Dao   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Session 7: Demonstrations Abstract The main concept behind our approach to scientific information sharing is to capture scientific experiments in hyper-media documents as the basic unit of information exchange. We defined a Scientific Experiment Markup Language (SEML) based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) standard that introduces definitions of tags and links for information specific and common in describing scientific experiments. A collection of SEML documents can be viewed as an online electronic experiment logbook that captures the entire experiment. The process and inter-relationships between experiments are modeled to allow an experiment to be recreated perhaps when input datasets change. We have prototyped an Active Semi-Structured Information Sharing System (ASSISS) supporting the browsing, searching, and dissemination of XML documents. Copyright(C) 2000 ACM