TY - JOUR
T1 - An empirical framework for evaluating interoperability of data exchange standards based on their actual usage
T2 - A case study on XLIFF
AU - Wasala, Asanka
AU - Buckley, Jim
AU - Schäler, Reinhard
AU - Exton, Chris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Data exchange formats play a prominent role in facilitating interoperability. Standardization of data exchange formats is therefore extremely important. In this paper, we present two contributions: an empirical framework called XML-DIUE, for evaluating data exchange format standards in terms of their usage and an illustration of this framework, demonstrating its ability to inform on these standards from their usage in practice. This illustration is derived from the localization domain and focuses on identifying interoperability issues associated with the usage of XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF), an open standard data exchange format. The initial results from this illustrative XLIFF study suggest the utility of the XML-DIUE approach. Specifically they suggest that there is prevalent ambiguity in the standard's usage, and that there are validation errors across 85% of the XLIFF files studied. The study also suggests several features for deprecation/modularization of the standard, in line with the XLIFF Technical Committee's deliberations, and successfully identifies the core features of XLIFF.
AB - Data exchange formats play a prominent role in facilitating interoperability. Standardization of data exchange formats is therefore extremely important. In this paper, we present two contributions: an empirical framework called XML-DIUE, for evaluating data exchange format standards in terms of their usage and an illustration of this framework, demonstrating its ability to inform on these standards from their usage in practice. This illustration is derived from the localization domain and focuses on identifying interoperability issues associated with the usage of XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF), an open standard data exchange format. The initial results from this illustrative XLIFF study suggest the utility of the XML-DIUE approach. Specifically they suggest that there is prevalent ambiguity in the standard's usage, and that there are validation errors across 85% of the XLIFF files studied. The study also suggests several features for deprecation/modularization of the standard, in line with the XLIFF Technical Committee's deliberations, and successfully identifies the core features of XLIFF.
KW - Data interoperability
KW - Empirical framework
KW - Lacalization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937559404&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.csi.2015.05.006
DO - 10.1016/j.csi.2015.05.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84937559404
SN - 0920-5489
VL - 42
SP - 157
EP - 170
JO - Computer Standards and Interfaces
JF - Computer Standards and Interfaces
ER -