| Abstract: |
The Collaborative Technologies Research Center within the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory is in the final stages of completing a pilot system called the Collaborative Management Environment (CME).
CME is a research project funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) to investigate advanced
information technologies for improved management of research information across the DOE
complex of national laboratories.
DOE funds a vast amount of energy-related research in a very broad range of areas.
It is not surprising that each laboratory follows independent research management
processes tailored to the expertise of that laboratory. Information resulting from
these management processes, however, is in different formats and different levels of
granularity that, in turn, makes the overall management of DOE-funded research a difficult
challenge.
In this presentation we present our pioneering work for using the eXtensible Markup
Language (XML) as a cost-efficient alternative for acquiring, storing, querying, and
publishing heterogeneous and distributed enterprise information. |
