KASSETTS Mapper & Translator

In the KASSETTS perspective document transformation means simultaneous execution of document structure conversion (from/to the KASSETTS reference data model) and document contents translation (from/to the reference English vocabulary).The significant technological progress that is introduced by the KASSETTS project from the interoperability perspective is in engineering the experimented techniques and transforming them into efficient web services with a very high degree of transformation success and the possibility to be easily adapted to other kinds of logistic documents than those taken as fundamental. More precisely:•The editing operation of (proprietary) data models and their mapping onto the KASSETTS reference data model overcomes the difficulties arising from representation in research-related languages, such as OWL, by introducing easy drag & drop user interfaces. •The run-time document transformation function is automatic and completely transparent to the sender (receiver) user who will maintain its own legacy system and be relieved by the need to know the data model and language of the receiver (sender) user.The mapper is MAPFORCE by Altova, a professional tools to map XML data models producing XML-to-XML transformations. The translator is a web-service realised as evolution of the corresponding SEAMLESS translator, by encapsulating the transformations produced by MAPFORCE. In this way the translator becomes executable in each node of the broker networks and is suited to a distributed architecture.