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CUC 2004 E1 Jay Datema - Web Services and Digital Libraries
presenter: Frank Lukey
What are Web Services?
Although there was a lot of excitement about web services in 2002, the Research Pane in Microsoft Office 2003 was the first commercial appearance targeted to end users. Prior to this, Google, Amazon and eBay started building momentum by giving developers Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These APIs have been the basis of novel applications using web services to search their content repositories. As an example, Journals@Ovid, a full-text database with over 1000 medical full-text journals, was made searchable in Office 2003 by simply highlighting and clicking a term to launch a search. This use bodes well for the future of web services and demonstrates how end users are already able to interact with traditional research applications from within their writing environments.
