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Ed Begley, Cynthia Howard-Reed · 2005
These approaches may be viewed as complementary and reflective of the general need to link data aggregations with similar content but different storage formats. The first method uses a relational database management system, known as an RDBMS, to compile model input data into searchable databases. The second effort employs MatML to demonstrate how 1) the RDBMS data may be alternatively stored in a repository of searchable MatML documents; 2) MatML might be used as an exchange mechanism between disparate storage formats, especially in the context of providing a convenient way to access data via the Internet for any IAQ model; and 3) value may be added to the data by using an extensible stylesheet language transformation, or XSLT,3 to provide online links to the U.S. Census Bureau’s North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the NIST Chemistry WebBook via the NAICS and Chemical Abstract Services Number (CASN) specifications contained in the MatML documents. RDBMS FORMAT