Prototype for Extended XDB Using Wiki

TL;DR

This paper presents a prototype extension of NASA's open-source XDB system, enabling efficient text-searches within Wiki platforms, demonstrating its application in enterprise data management with plans for broader support.

Contribution

The paper introduces an extended XDB protocol and a prototype specifically designed for Wiki text-searches, enhancing data integration and retrieval capabilities.

Findings

Prototype supports 16 Wiki tags for text-search.

The protocol is publicly available on SourceForge.

Future work includes supporting full Wiki markup and additional dialects.

Abstract

This paper describes a prototype of extended XDB. XDB is an open-source and extensible database architecture developed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide integration of heterogeneous and distributed information resources for scientific and engineering applications. XDB enables an unlimited number of desktops and distributed information sources to be linked seamlessly and efficiently into an information grid using Data Access and Retrieval Composition (DARC) protocol which provides a contextual search and retrieval capability useful for lightweight web applications. This paper shows the usage of XDB on common data management in the enterprise without burdening users and application developers with unnecessary complexity and formal schemas. Supported by NASA Ames Research Center through NASA Exploration System Mission Directorate (ESMD) Higher Education grant, a project team at Fairfield University extended this concept and developed an extended XDB protocol and a prototype providing text-searches for Wiki. The technical specification of the protocol was posted to Source Forge (sourceforge.net) and a prototype providing text-searches for Wiki was developed. The prototype was created for 16 tags of the MediaWiki dialect. As part of future works, the prototype will be further extended to the complete Wiki markups and other dialects of Wiki.