With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

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Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

With a name like Extensible Markup Language, it must be boring. Right? Shorten that to XML and think again. Fast becoming a requirement for conducting business online, XML is the key to flexibility.

Structured Data Capture (SDC) is an open-source technical framework published by the Quality Research and Public Health committee of the standards organization Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

We are in the midst of an unstructured data revolution – with 80% of data likely to be unstructured by 2025, according to IDC. The rise of advanced analytics and in particular artificial ...