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ZyLAB to adopt XML for
Data Storage
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 10th, 2003 — ZyLAB,
developer of document imaging and full-text retrieval software, has
fully adopted XML as the data format to store scanned and electronic
documents. More and more libraries, government organizations, commercial
organizations, and software publishers such as Microsoft follow the
open XML standards to store and exchange information.
Some popular recent applications for XML are the storage of historical
archives, military data exchange, electronic data supply from law
enforcement agencies to courts, and corporate filing and record management.
ZyLAB’s ZyIMAGE is now able to support these applications by storing
all scanned files, as well as currently available electronic files,
in an open standard XML database.
Digital Sustainability
The increased popularity of digital archiving, though, has brought
with it a new area of concern, known as digital sustainability. The
focus of this issue is whether or not digital information that is
archived today can still be accessed 10, 20, or even 100 years from
now. At some point in the future, all current software will no longer
be supported because they will not be used anymore or will have been
completely forgotten. Over the last few years, libraries, governments,
and commercial organizations worldwide have recognized digital sustainability
as a large problem that will have to be dealt with.
XML and TIFF as Open Data Standard
One of the most promising solutions to this problem is the use of
XML to represent document structure and meta-information in combination
with either a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) to store (raster) images
of scanned pages or a hyperlink to an electronic file such as MS Word,
PDF, JPEG, MPEG, and so on. Furthermore, XML and TIFFs have open well-defined
standards for which standard source code libraries are freely available
on the Internet.
XML Databases
XML proves itself to be very useful because it allows users to handle
documents as separate files while also treating the information in
the document as if it is stored in a database record. This method
of storing information is much more efficient then storing unstructured
data such as large text files, audio, video and other information
in traditional relations relational database systems.
In addition, relational database records are traditionally difficult
to transfer between different systems unless a conversion is performed.
Records stored in XML do not need to be converted, and ZyIMAGE is
an excellent tool to disclose the unstructured data stored in these
XML records.
For more information, request our latest white paper on this subject,
XML4TIFF: An XML schema for storing multi-page image documents by
Dr. Hans Henseler, CTO ZyLAB Technologies BV. Or, you can download
this document from our web site: www.zylab.com - document management :
About ZyLAB
ZyLAB Technologies BV is a fast growing and profitable company. In
1983, ZyLAB was the first company to deliver a full-featured PC-based
full-text retrieval software package called ZyINDEX. ZyINDEX was particularly
popular for searching large collections of electronic file collections
in PC environments. As of 1991, ZyLAB focussed all of its development
and marketing efforts on ZyIMAGE, aimed at delivering the best search
engine available for large paper collections. As a result, ZyLAB now
has a full solution to archive, search, find, organise, share and
reproduce all paper and electronic office documents with unparalleled
ease of use. Worldwide, ZyLAB has sold over 600,000 licenses and has
active operational installations in more than 5,000 sites. ZyLAB has
several offices in Europe, the USA and Asia. All software is developed
in the Netherlands. More information can be found on www.zylab.com - e-mail archiving
For more information, please contact: www.zylab.com - records management
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