Toward a Normalized XML Schema for the GGP Data Archives

Abstract

Since 1997, the Global Geodynamics Project (GGP) stations have used a text-based data format. The main drawback of this type of data coding is the lack of data integrity during the data flow processing. As a result, metadata and even data must be checked by human operators. In this paper, we propose a new format for representing the GGP data. This new format is based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).