From: Lane.Derek@epamail.epa.gov
Date: December 13, 2005 9:05:34 AM PST
Cc: Eversole.Susan@epamail.epa.gov, Schwab.Wally@epamail.epa.gov, jlink1@nc.rr.com

Proposal:
EIMS (http://epa.gov/eims) is a web-accessible EPA catalog of projects
and products. We have been accepting XML documents from a variety of
sources into our relational database.
Since our database schema is fixed, but the XML schemas vary widely, we
have specified a target (Dublin Core+) schema as a target for
submission.
We describe design choices made when choosing this solution and actual
problems and challenges experienced in our first large trial.

--Derek Lane
CSC contractor to EPA to4047 eims/nsdi support
(919) 380 4540