THE MISGUIDED SILVER BULLET: WHAT XML WILL AND WILL NOT DO TO HELP INFORMATION INTEGRATION
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) offers many important benefits and improvements over its predecessor, HTML. But, articles have appeared about XML with exaggerated claims of it being a "Rosetta Stone" with "miraculuou...
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2003
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| description | The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) offers many important benefits and
improvements over its predecessor, HTML. But, articles have appeared about XML
with exaggerated claims of it being a "Rosetta Stone" with "miraculuous ways" to
almost automatically provide information integration. These claims are actually being
believed by some executives. It is almost surprising that no one has claimed that XML
can cure cancer and provide world peace! In reality, XML must face many of the
same challenges that plagued Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and database
integration efforts of the past. To a large extent, there are both managerial and
technical challenges - much related to the difficulties of attaining universally accepted
semantically-rich standards. In this paper, these challenges will be discussed with
specific emphasis on the issue of dealing with a real-world with multiple "contexts."
Some promising research directions, some overlapping with the "semantic web" effort,
will be presented. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/18442019-04-12T08:22:46Z THE MISGUIDED SILVER BULLET: WHAT XML WILL AND WILL NOT DO TO HELP INFORMATION INTEGRATION Madnick, Stuart The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) offers many important benefits and improvements over its predecessor, HTML. But, articles have appeared about XML with exaggerated claims of it being a "Rosetta Stone" with "miraculuous ways" to almost automatically provide information integration. These claims are actually being believed by some executives. It is almost surprising that no one has claimed that XML can cure cancer and provide world peace! In reality, XML must face many of the same challenges that plagued Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and database integration efforts of the past. To a large extent, there are both managerial and technical challenges - much related to the difficulties of attaining universally accepted semantically-rich standards. In this paper, these challenges will be discussed with specific emphasis on the issue of dealing with a real-world with multiple "contexts." Some promising research directions, some overlapping with the "semantic web" effort, will be presented. 2003-03-28T20:00:20Z 2003-03-28T20:00:20Z 2003-03-28T20:00:20Z Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1844 en_US MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4185-01 139141 bytes application/pdf application/pdf |
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| title | THE MISGUIDED SILVER BULLET: WHAT XML WILL AND WILL NOT DO TO HELP INFORMATION INTEGRATION |
| title_full | THE MISGUIDED SILVER BULLET: WHAT XML WILL AND WILL NOT DO TO HELP INFORMATION INTEGRATION |
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| title_short | THE MISGUIDED SILVER BULLET: WHAT XML WILL AND WILL NOT DO TO HELP INFORMATION INTEGRATION |
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