1. XML Query Language Project Dennis Petesch Mentors and Affiliations: Lola Olsen & GCMD

2. What is GCMD? Global Change Master Directory Sponsored by Nasa Accessed Online Contains Data Sets and Portals Learning Page Has Docbuilder which aids in submitting information to the GCMD.

4. Division of Time Participating in a user testing survey for the Global Change Master Directory website (www.gcmd.nasa.gov).www.gcmd.nasa.gov provided insightful knowledge about the website, which would help future viewers better understand how to use and navigate throughout the site. Remaining Time was spent on: * Researching XML Databases * Developing a Java program * Testing * Documentation

5. Goal Provide support by implementing a Java- based parser that will query the GCMD Database using XML XPath expressions (Standardized XML based query language) instead of the current in-house query language.

6. Research Questions XPath? The primary purpose of XPath is to address certain criteria of an XML document through the hierarchal navigation of an XML document. Will XPath be sufficient in filtering XML Metadata? Can I use XPath to exactly pinpoint certain information?

7. Approach Practice XML and Java Research XPath functionality Research Database functionality Testing XPath expressions Black box testing Open Source XML database from eXist, Xindice

8. ATMOSPHERE ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA STORMS ATMOSPHERE ATMOSPHERIC ANOMOLIES HURRICANES XML EXAMPLE

9. GCMD Query Language [Location:Location_Name=NORTH AMERICA] OR ([Source_Name:Short_Name=LANDSAT] AND [Project:Short_Name=DODS]) Grouping ()s [Location:Location_Name=NORTH AMERICA] AND [Source_Name:Short_Name=LANDSAT] Boolean Queries [Entry_ID=ZZZ415] Simple Queries

10. /DIFS/DIF[Entry_ID/text()=ds018.0][Entry_ID=ds018.0] XPathGCMD Query Language EXAMPLE

11. /DIFS/DIF[Location/Location_Name/ text()=NORTHERN HEMISPHERE and Data_Set_Language/text()=English] [Location:Location_Name= NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ] AND [Data_Set_Language=English] XPathGCMD Query Language Grouping() Boolean

12. Database Comparison Exist Open Source Written in Java Makes use of GUI Supports XPath & XQuery 2^31 small documents Minimal command line documentation XINDICE Open Source Written in Java Makes use of GUI Does not support XQuery Many small documents Maintained by Apache

13. Results Xindice XML database fit requirements, plus it made easier use of the command line. Use a soap interface to interact with the user. The soap interface would tell the XML database what to search for, and then the formatted results would be displayed to the user on a web page.

14. Visualization

15. Summary Review XML and Java Research XPath Develop test data Black box testing on open source databases Develop Java code to interact with Database

16. Questions