Bridging O-Telos and XML with XML Schema: the Authoring Environment for KBS Adaptive Hyperbook

KBS Adaptive Hyperbook is a framework designed for modeling, organizing, and maintaining distributed hypermedia resources on the Web with the purpose of supporting Web-based distance education. Since the Hyperbook system is implemented based on a sophisticated meta modeling language (O-Telos), its authoring depends to a great extent on the Hyperbook developers instead of the lecturers who have rich teaching experience but generally have no knowledge of O-Telos and meta modeling. This has become a notable obstacle to enrich the content of existing Hyperbooks and further construct new Hyperbooks which are applicable to different specialties. In this paper we present a novel approach which can achieve the Schema-level transformation between O-Telos Schema and W3C standard XML Schema. Through transforming Hyperbook data models, which are originally represented in O-Telos, into XML schemas, we can provide a standalone Hyperbook authoring environment which is able to directly utilize some X...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ITCC
• Authors: Changtao Qu, Wolfgang Nejdl
• Keywords: Information Technology, ITCC 2002, Meta Modeling, Sophisticated Meta Modeling, XML Schemas