Application of MatML to Contaminant Emissions Data.
Application of MatML to Contaminant Emissions Data.
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Begley, E.; Howard-Reed, C.
ASTM Standardization News, 52-59, October 2005.
Keywords:
emissions; contaminants; databases; mapping; indoor air
quality
Abstract:
Standard data formats are generally employed because
they save time and money by promoting interoperability -
that is, by facilitating data exchange and preserving
information for re-use - and are available for a wide
variety of business, scientific, and technological
domains. MatML, for example, is an extensible markup
language (XML) used for the management and exchange of
materials property data.
During the October 2004 ASTM Committee D22
Conference on
Indoor Emissions Testing, MatML was introduced as a
format suitable for contaminant source emission rate
data. This article describes how these data are composed
into MatML documents and provides guidance to anyone who
might want to use MatML to manage and exchange other
forms of materials property data that are at present
stored in legacy relational databases. Data on volatile
organic compound (VOC) source emission rates are used to
illustrate the method.
