Title :
Texas Library Directory Web Services Application: The Potential for Web Services to Enhance Information Access to Legacy Data
Author :
Oguz, Fatih ; Moen, William E.
Author_Institution :
Valdosta State Univ., GA
Abstract :
This paper presents an overview of an exploratory research project to identify, describe, and investigate the applicability of the Web services (WS) approach to access legacy data. In the Z Texas implementation component of the Library of Texas (ZLOT) project, the ZLOT technical team has implemented a multipurpose Texas library directory database (TLDD) that is used as a back-end database to support the Library of Texas (LOT) resource discovery service (RDS). The researchers developed and implemented a prototype WS application to show how a legacy system can be accessed and its data can be searched and retrieved. This study focused on understanding how requests and responses between software applications are encoded in XML
Keywords :
Web services; XML; information retrieval; relational databases; Web service; information access; legacy system; multipurpose Texas library directory database; resource discovery service; Application software; Information retrieval; Metasearch; Prototypes; Relational databases; Software libraries; Software prototyping; Standards development; Web services; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Next Generation Web Services Practices, 2006. NWeSP 2006. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2664-0
DOI :
10.1109/NWESP.2006.30
