ELTIML: Express logistics tracking information markup language for data exchange processes in express logistics

Abstract

Express Logistics produced big express tracking data in E-commerce Environment, however, express tracking has a significant weakness due to the lack of an industry-wide standard for archiving and exchanging the tracking information of the basic express item. It was difficult for express company to share and exchange express data with each other. In this paper, we introduced XML to describe data and analyzed data exchange mode of tracking information of express logistics, the data dictionary was draw up first, and then put forward a data describe language based on XML, which called express logistics tracking information markup language (ELTIML), ELTIML was intended to be a common “language” for describing express tracking data, and proposed a schema of ELTIML. At last, with regard to tracking information heterogeneous in four express logistics information management system, we designed an information tracking application framework using ELTIML. The results indicates that data exchanging model based on ELTIML shields heterogeneity of data resources and it is a efficient method of data exchange.