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OSD-DB: A Military Logistics Mobile Database

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Web Technologies and Applications (APWeb 2011)

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Government agencies and other organizations often have a huge quantity of data in need of digitization. In some cases, the data are represented on paper as tables with multilevel headers. Storing this data into relational tables probably necessitates a complex redesign of the data, through renaming of columns and/or normalization of the tables. To save this step, an XML data model can be used easily and naturally, but typical non-technical users still prefer to visualize data in the form of tables. We show in this paper how to transform and display XML data as HTML tables with multilevel headers, to preserve the original easy-to-read format while having a well defined schema, and describe how it can be used in concrete applications, focusing on a military logistics database.

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  1. International University, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Denis Rinfret

  2. Department of National Defense, CFB Kingston, Canada

    Cyrille Chênevert & Frédéric Drolet

  3. Royal Military College, Canada

    Denis Rinfret, Cyrille Chênevert & Frédéric Drolet

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Information, Renmin University of China, 100872, Beijing, China

    Xiaoyong Du

  2. LFCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Wenfei Fan

  3. School of Software, Tsinghua University, Room 819, Main Building, 100084, Beijing, China

    Jianmin Wang

  4. Computer School, Wuhan University, Luojiashan Road, 430072, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Zhiyong Peng

  5. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, St. Lucia, Australia

    Mohamed A. Sharaf

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Rinfret, D., Chênevert, C., Drolet, F. (2011). OSD-DB: A Military Logistics Mobile Database. In: Du, X., Fan, W., Wang, J., Peng, Z., Sharaf, M.A. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6612. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20291-9_50

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