Modeling Agro Data repository using XML

Abstract

Today everywhere there is data, if we want to use that data we have to maintain data repository for that, in such a way so that it can easily and efficiently handled by the user as well as by researcher. But it is a challenging task to design data repository of such type because there are different types of data available as structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. After long analysis it is found that Agro data belongs to the semi-structured type because of its varying nature of attributes in it for same concept. Agro data means data that belongs to the Agricultural domain. As we know XML as a flexible and self-describing technique for modeling semi structured data. In this research article XML is chosen for agro data modeling since the structure of XML may vary from a flat regular data-centric structure to a deep irregular document centric structure.