- Author
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Begley, E.
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Howard-Reed, C.
- Title
- Application of MatML to Contaminant Emissions Data.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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ASTM Standardization News,
52-59,
October 2005
- Keywords
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emissions
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contaminants
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databases
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mapping
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indoor air quality
- Identifiers
- RDBMS (relational database management system); relationships for tables in VOC source emission rate database; ASTM guides leveraged by the MatML Development Effort; mapping artifact. Note that units are treated implicitly in the database; mapping of RDBMS table fields onto MatML; XSLT rendering of MatML document in a web browser; link from MatML document ot U.S. Census Bureau using NAICS specification; link form MatML document to NIST Chemistry WebBook using CASN; Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
- Abstract
- Standard data formats are generally employed because they save time and money by promoting interoperability - that is, by facilitating data exchange and preserving information for re-use - and are available for a wide variety of business, scientific, and technological domains. MatML, for example, is an extensible markup language (XML) used for the management and exchange of materials property data. During the October 2004 ASTM Committee D22 Conference on Indoor Emissions Testing, MatML was introduced as a format suitable for contaminant source emission rate data. This article describes how these data are composed into MatML documents and provides guidance to anyone who might want to use MatML to manage and exchange other forms of materials property data that are at present stored in legacy relational databases. Data on volatile organic compound (VOC) source emission rates are used to illustrate the method.