RE: [xml-dev] What is the best way to approach the structuring of invent

["Graham Hannington" <graham_hannington@fundi.com.au>]

> Do you have experience with structuring inventory data?

No.

> What is the best way to proceed?

Given the above "no experience" disclaimer...

The bleeding obvious: research existing related XML vocabularies (even if 
they do not exactly match your domain).

Do you need to exchange this data with U.S. government agencies? If so, 
you might want to investigate NIEM:

http://niem.gov/

For example, the nc:Airport element can contain multiple 
nc:FacilityContainsItem elements:

http://www.schemacentral.com/sc/niem21/e-nc_Airport.html

However, as far I can see (I have not looked very hard), this vocabulary 
is for "per-item" information, not "summary" information such as "number 
of aircraft" (at an airport).

Also in NIEM, the nc:Aircraft element:

http://www.schemacentral.com/sc/niem21/e-nc_Aircraft.html

Not aircraft or airport equipment, but here is the Federal Real Property 
Council "2012 GUIDANCE FOR REAL PROPERTY INVENTORY REPORTING" (describing 
an XML schema):

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/FRPP%202012%20Data%20Dictionary%20FINAL.pdf

Finally: contact the U.S. FAA and ask them if they already have such a 
schema (unless you're working for the FAA ;-). The FAA (sorry, this is 
probably not news to you) already use a variety of XML vocabularies for 
air transport-related domains (AIXM, WXXM, FIXM).

Graham Hannington
Perth, Western Australia

Fundi Software Pty Ltd  2012  ABN 89 009 120 290


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