Enhancing the US Navy's GIDB Portal with Web Services
John T. Sample, Roy V. Ladner, Lev Shulman, Elias Ioup, Frederick E. Petry, Elizabeth G. Warner, Kevin Shaw, Frank P. McCreedy · IEEE Internet Computing · 2006
Using Web services, the authors have been able to increase the amount of data accessible through the Naval Research Laboratory’s Geospatial Information Database (GIDB) portal. They created a Web crawler for Web Mapping Services (WMS) that harvests and adds data to the portal index and a translator that provides access to non-WMS data through the WMS interface. The Integrated Web Services Broker, using traditional Web services standards, provides automated access to meteorological and oceanographic data.