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Author(s)	Keiran Millard1, Rob Atkinson2, Andrew Woolf3, Roy Lowry4, Pieter Haaring5, Francisco Hernandez6 Torill Hamre7, Dan Pillich8, Holger Bothien8, Ward Vanden Berghe6, Ian Johnson3, Brian Matthews3, Hans Dahlin9, Nic Flemming9, Vladimir Vladymyrov10, Bev Meckenzie11, Alan Edwards12, Willem van der Hoeven5, Quillon Harphen1, Gil Ross13
Summary	The eXtensible Mark-Up Language (XML) developed by the World Wide Web Consortium can be used to develop a framework that improves the interoperability of data in support of marine observing systems. There have been several initiatives investigating how this can be achieved in practice, but to date there has been no strong direction that the marine community should take. This paper presents the findings of an international project tasked with providing such direction. In particular it provides ‘pre-standardisation’ advice and justification to the international marine community on the use of XML standards for data interoperability. Importantly this embraces the very broad extent of the marine community, covering the very many disciplines and domain areas that exist.
Doc Type	Information Document
Status	Published on 01 Jan 2005
Notes	1HR Wallingford, 2Social Change Online, 3Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, 4British Oceanographic Data Centre, 5RIKZ, 6VLIZ, 7Nansen Environmental Remote Sensing Center, 8Seven Cs, 9EuroGOOS, 10IOC/IODE, 11UK Marine Information Council, 12European Commission, 13Met Office UK
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IOC/IODE-XVIII/Inf9

Using XML Technology for Marine Data Exchange A Position Paper of the MarineXML Initiative