Ecoterm:Services

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Important software engineering paradigm
• Web services
  • WSDL, SOAP (W3C)
• Web service interface to conceptual/terminological resource …

Lots of individual projects (EOS, UNEP.Net …)

• Standardisation initiatives …
  • Some recent work on implementing the SKOS API …
  • … but still plenty of issues.
  • OMG lexicon query service?
  • HL7 Common Terminology Services (CTS)
  • ANSI terminology services API?
  • XMDR?
  • Other attempts to build consensus?
• N.B.
  • SOA & WS architecture for distributing programmatic components
  • Semantic Web machinery architecture for distributing data
  • Complementary
    • E.g. a service that provides efficient programmatic access to an aggregation of data harvested from multiple published sources