Open AccessThe potential for web services to enhance information access to legacy data: An exploratory study and application
Author(s) -
Oguz Fatih,
Moen William E.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504301244
Subject(s) - computer science , world wide web , xml , directory , web service , component (thermodynamics) , database , service (business) , software , software engineering , operating system , physics , economy , economics , thermodynamics
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 multi‐purpose 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 Extensible Markup Language (XML).