RE: [entity-resolution] XML Catalogs information

[Mary McRae <marypmcrae@gmail.com>]

Will do my best :-)

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren@textuality.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:18 PM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: entity-resolution@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [entity-resolution] XML Catalogs information
> 
> Mary, 
> 
> if you find it appropriate, the Entity Resolution TC would 
> like you to include the attached information about catalogs 
> to the notification of the vote that you are sending out to 
> the OASIS member companies.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Lauren Wood, ER TC Chair
> 
> --------------------
> 
> XML documents and data often reference other external resources.  
> Often the referencing information is not sufficient to locate 
> the desired resource unambiguously, or the resource is not 
> accessible at the given location at the time it is required, 
> or it is preferable that an alternate resource be used in 
> place of the referenced resource.  
> 
> For example:
> 
> 1. External identifiers may require resources that are not 
> always available. For example, a system identifier that 
> points to a resource on another machine may be inaccessible 
> if a network connection is not available.  
> 
> 2. External identifiers may require protocols that are not 
> accessible to all of the tools on a single computer system. 
> An external identifier that is addressed with the FTP 
> protocol, for example, is not accessible to a tool that does 
> not support that protocol.  
> 
> 3. It is often convenient to access resources using system 
> identifiers that point to local resources. Exchanging 
> documents that refer to local resources with other systems is 
> problematic at best and impossible at worst.  
> 
> 4. Incoming XML documents may reference customized versions 
> of standard XML schemas.  To protect your systems, it is 
> necessary to remap the schema references so that known, 
> trusted copies of the schemas are used.  
> 
> Entity Resolution is the process by which these resource 
> references can be mapped to another version of the reference 
> that can be found or that is preferred for other reasons.  To 
> address these issues, the OASIS XML Catalog specification 
> defines an application-independent entity catalog that maps 
> external identifiers and URI references to
> (other) URI references.  
> 
> Entity resolution catalogs have already been widely 
> implemented in much deployed software.  Promoting the OASIS 
> XML Catalog specification to an OASIS Standard is crucial for 
> continued interoperability of XML applications.
> 
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