Open AccessThe Globalization of Crystallographic Knowledge
Author(s) -
MurrayRust Peter
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta crystallographica section d
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1399-0047
DOI - 10.1107/s0907444998009366
Subject(s) - rdf , xml , computer science , metadata , world wide web , markup language , hypermedia , sgml , information retrieval , data science , semantic web , xml framework
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web provides major new opportunities for distributed databases, especially in macromolecular science. A new generation of technology, based on structured documents (SD), is being developed which will integrate documents and data in a seamless manner. This offers experimentalists the chance to publish and archive high‐quality data from any discipline. Data and documents from different disciplines can be combined and searched using technology such as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and its associated support for hypermedia (XLL), metadata (RDF) and stylesheets (XSL). Opportunities in crystallography and related disciplines are described.