1. UKOLN is supported by: Web Services and the JISC IE Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of Bath [email_address] JISC All Programmes Meeting, Brighton, 2004 www.bath.ac.uk a centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk
2. What are Web services? “ Automated resources accessed via the Internet . Web services are software-powered resources or functional components whose capabilities can be accessed at an internet URI. Standards-based web services use XML to interact with each other…” “ The term Web services describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. XML is used to tag the data, SOAP is used to transfer the data, WSDL is used for describing the services available and UDDI is used for listing what services are available. Used primarily as a means for businesses to communicate with each other and with clients, Web services allow organizations to communicate data without intimate knowledge of each other's IT systems …”
12. Portal/metasearch service end-user library catalogue Google Amazon SOAP Z39.50 SOAP RDN SRW Fairly active interest in RDN SRW from PORTAL project (Hull) and from LIONSHARE (P2P) project in Canada