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

fYear

2006

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

132

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Web Services Practices, 2006. NWeSP 2006. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2664-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NWESP.2006.30

Filename

4090014