Using Java and XML in Interdisciplinary Research A New Data-gathering Tool for Historians Working with EuroClimHist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11253161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Urs Dietrich-Felber (University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 174-185 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-5440 • E-ISSN: 1940-1906 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/hmts.37.4.174-185 |
| OpenAlex | W2020884093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Searching, gathering, organizing, and retrieving data are basic tasks for historians. As long as historians work by themselves, decisions concerning data format, data exchange, computer platform, and the like remain secondary. Teams of historians often use relational databases for centralized data storage. However, fundamental risks are implicit when one uses databases. Among technical considerations, the process of transformation between the source and the database is a deciding factor. For those who gather data, the effective use of such possibilities as data exchange, compatibility, and simplicity of survey and the reuse of the data in other contexts and platforms becomes increasingly important. In contrast, the user's needs include the possibility of data verification and use of the data for more than one question. Many relational databases have considerable shortcomings because the stored data lose the visual characteristics, the syntax, and the semantics of the original source. The EuroClimHist database environment is a part of the NCCR Climate project. It uses a data tool, written in Java for the gathering of documentary data, which generates extensible markup language (XML) files for data exchange. Keywords: climate changedata exchangedocumentary dataEuroClimHistJavaXML
Data exchange · Data science · Database · Efficient XML Interchange · Java · Programming language · Relational database · Semi-structured data · Streaming XML · Syntax · World Wide Web · XML · XML database · XML Schema Editor · Computer Science · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |