Texas Library Directory Web Services Application: The Potential for Web Services to Enhance Information Access to Legacy Data

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Fatih Oguz, Assistant Professor (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

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.

Additional Information

Publication
Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP’06)
Language: English
Date: 2006
Keywords
Texas Library Directory Web Services Application, Web services, information access, legacy data, Z Texas Implementation Component of the Library of Texas, Texas Library Directory Database, XML

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