A New Proposal for Heterogeneous Data Integration to XML format. Application to the Environment of Libraries

Organizations have to work with large volumes of information at different formats. In this context they are necessary tools and formats like XML, to integrate these data and solve the heterogeneity problem. In this paper we proposed a new software tool called XDS. XDS is a new system to integrate data from relational databases, native XML databases and XML documents. On the other hand, the environment of libraries has also their bibliographical catalogues at different sources and formats. Therefore, we show the use and validity of the XDS system in this environment obtaining the results in a bibliographical format like MODS. Hereby the resources of different bibliographical catalogues can be consulted obtaining the results in the same common format as MODS.