TOM is a data model and a mediator architecture for handling diverse data formats.
John Mark Ockerbloom is now continuing TOM work at the University of Pennsylvania , in support of its digital library . TOM A brief explanation of TOM can be found here. Demonstrations The TOM Conversion Service , operating at Carnegie Mellon, shows how TOM can be used to convert common documents found on the Web. This involves both conversion and data extraction. A TOM Type Browser , running here at Penn, lets you peek under the hood and look at the underlying definitions of some of TOM's types.