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     Examples  of  XML  applications 

 One widely adopted XML application is the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) ( www.

dublincore.org ), so called since the steering group first met in Dublin, Ohio, in 1995, which 

has been active in defining different forms of metadata to support information access across 

the Internet. An important part of this initiative is in defining a standard method of refer-

encing web documents and other media resources. If widely adopted this would make it 

much more efficient to search for a document produced by a particular author in a particular 

language in a particular date range. Up to now, it has mainly been applied within content 

management systems to assist in knowledge management for data on intranets and extranets 

rather than on the public Internet. 

 The significance of XML is indicated by its use for facilitating supply chain management. 

For example, Microsoft’s BizTalk server ( www.microsoft.com/biztalk ) for B2B applica-

tion integration is based on XML. Since this is a proprietary standard, an open standard 

‘RosettaNet’ ( www.rosettanet.org ) was created by a consortium of many of the world’s lead-

ing information technology, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing 

companies such as Intel, Sony and Nokia. BizTalk server enables different enterprise applica-

tions such as SAP and JDEdwards to exchange information as part of improved supply chain 

management. Microsoft summarises the benefits of BizTalk as: