I'm building a web site to run online performance tests relevant for PwP.

The data collected will be open to anyone, so it needs to be both human readable and machine readable (both by Excel and bespoke programs). To do this I'm using xml.

Does anyone know of an xml standard for Parkinson's?

For instance, a tag like <TREMORFREQUENCY> would be useful. But, so that it can be exported, it is much easier if everyone uses the same terminology.

John

As XML tags are case sensitive and will recognize spaces (several spaces will be rendered as a single space) suggest you use terms as they would be written. Not sure at all whether there is joined up thinking on this.....

Are you looking for terms that will also serve as meta data? Most search engines now search the page content to trawl for relevant links. Here are some of the most common for PD:

parkinsons
Parkinsons
parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson Disease ( most recent medical usage )
parkinson disease ( ditto )
PD
pd

AS you can see lots of variables, but not upper case..... so maybe your XML upper case makes it easier to code, and anyway will not be seen.

Can see that your term is very specific. So you are creating a container for data about that specific term? If this is all you want it to do then it does not matter, name it any way you want, but if they are to be human and machine searchable then what the machine looks for should reflect how humans input the request, lower case becomes the preferable choice. You indicate that you want to use it in things like excel too, so then it becomes a different issue..........

Perhaps MJFF or NIH webmasters in USA, or DoH, NHS webmasters in the UK, may be of help....

The thing about XML is as you can invent your own most probably there is not yet a standard, webmasters are likely to do their own thing, and tailor it to each project - perhaps someone else knows different?


Good luck with it anyway, will be watching with interest!
Lindy