Getting the most out of COCOON: A XML-based webservice for a registration agency

Track: Knowledge Management, Metadata and Semantics, Case Studies

Audience Level: High Level/Technical view

Time: Cancelled

Author: Jan Brase, Research center L3S

Keywords: Dublin Core, Web Services, XSLT, Identifier

Abstract:

Since 2005 the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) is established as a DOI registration agency for scientific content. Data providers transmit XML-files containing the DC-based metadata descriptions of the scientific data to a webservice infrastructure at the TIB, which was created by the Research center L3S during a project founded by the registration agency for scientific content. Data providers transmit XML-files containing the DC-based metadata descriptions of the scientific data to a webservice infrastructure at the TIB, which was created by the Research center L3S during a project founded by the German research association (DFG). This webservice infrastructure is based on the web application framework COCOON. We have however extended COCOON with full webservice functionalities. Using XSLT the webservice is furthermore able to transform XML-metadata files into well-formed PICA-files to insert the metadata information into the library catalogue of the TIB.