title: Dynamic XML-based exchange of relational data: application to the Human Brain Project.
abstract: This paper discusses an approach to exporting relational data in XML format for data exchange over the web. We describe the first real-world application of SilkRoute, a middleware program that dynamically converts existing relational data to a user-defined XML DTD. The application, called XBrain, wraps SilkRoute in a Java Server Pages framework, thus permitting a web-based XQuery interface to a legacy relational database. The application is demonstrated as a query interface to the University of Washington Brain Project's Language Map Experiment Management System, which is used to manage data about language organization in the brain.
authors.affiliation: Depts. of Biological Structure and Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Zhengming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yana
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kadiyska
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Suciu
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Brinkley
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D007802:Language; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software