Abstract
How is huge scientific information described and serviced? What retrieval functions should be provided? These are old and new problems to be solved. So far various methods have been developed, however each of them includes some defects. The situation is not satisfying for the researcher's needs who wants to investigate information widely not restricted to the particular resource, to get valuable information with less noise, and to reorganize obtained information according to his/her view. A new methodology on new concept is necessary to resolve the situation. We proposed concept of "Computer-Processable Structured Digital Object based on XML (Extensible Markup Language):(CPSDO/XML)" that is composed of elementary units of information, and designed an information retrieval system based on CPSDO/XML for Web resources. We also developed a prototype for Merck Index data, that is a typical fact database, on ASP.NET. The data structure is described with XML schema.
