ISYWEB: an XML-based architecture for web information systems.
Moussa Lô, Amrane Hocine · 2005
The development of Internet technologies made migrate the information systems towards the Web. This migration has profited mainly of an evolution of the database technologies. Nevertheless, it requires a new architecture of information system permitting to bring solutions for the problems of heterogeneous data integration, relevant information retrieval and diffusion of integrated data on the Web. We propose ISYWEB, an XML-based architecture for web information systems providing models, methods and tools to solve problems posed by the migration of information systems towards the Web. ISYWEB relies on an XML data repository called dataweb; we define a dataweb as a collection of structured and semi-structured data. In this paper, we describe the ISYWEB architecture and show how it allows to (1) integrate heterogeneous data sources into an XML data repository, (2) provide relevant XML information retrieval based on domain knowledge, and (3) design and realize web applications to publish the XML data on the Web. 1.