Texas Library Directory Web Services Application: The Potential for Web Services to Enhance Information Access to Legacy Data
Fatih Oguz, William E. Moen · International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices · 2006
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