TNTBase – a Versioned Database for XML(Mathematical) DocumentsContent Math Training Camp 2010

Christoph Lange, Vyacheslav Zholudev

Jacobs University, Bremen, GermanyKWARC – Knowledge Adaptation and Reasoning for Content

July 07, 2010

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TNTBase – a Versioned XML Database

http://tntbase.org – combinesVersioning as in SubversionFine-grained XML access as in Oracle Berkeley DB XML

. . . plus:Virtual documents (= views on XML)Plugin API for validation, presentation, etc.RESTful HTTP interface for accessing functionality‘‘File manager’’ GUI

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TNTBase – File Manager Interface

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TNTBase – Virtual Document Workflow

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TNTBase – Extension Towards a Specific Format

XML

xSVN

XML-layer

Web Application

XML(F)

xSVN

XML-layer

Web Application

F-specific layer

TNTBase TNTBase (F)

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TNTBase – Plugin API and RESTful Interface

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TNTBase + JOMDoc + JOBAD Integrated

(JOMDoc rendering XHTML+MathML+RDFa, JOBAD providingdefinition lookup and semantic navigation)

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Conclusion

Content Math markup is often XML in versioned repositories⇒TNTBase core handles that wellThere is not just one language (OMDoc, MathDox, OpenMathCDs, etc.) – be flexible w. r. t. schemaDifferent languages require different validation andpresentation⇒ plugin APIAlternative: put higher-level functionality on top, not intoTNTBase (→MKM talk on Thursday: ‘‘MKM in the large’’)

Try it (Debian package available): http://tntbase.org

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