2001/05/23 by J. -M. Le Goff, H. Stockinger, Goff, J. -M. Le +19
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Algorithms and Data Compression #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0105083
14 pages 7 figures
arxiv created 2001/05/23 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Interoperability of potentially heterogeneous databases has been an ongoing research issue for a number of years in the database community. With the trend towards globalization of data location and data access and the consequent requirement for the coexistence of new data stores with legacy systems, the cooperation and data interchange between data repositories has become increasingly important. The emergence of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a database independent representation for data offers a suitable mechanism for transporting data between repositories. This paper describes a research activity within a group at CERN (called CMS) towards identifying and implementing database serialization and deserialization methods that can be used to replicate or migrate objects across the network between CERN and worldwide centres using XML to serialize the contents of multiple objects resident in object-oriented databases.