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Terminology Web Services

Terminology Web Services. Access to the National Agricultural Library Thesaurus via Web Services Tim Lynch AgNIC Technical Lead tlynch@nal.usda.gov. Terminology Web Services. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Impetus for development Details of implementation Bumps in the road Futures.

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Terminology Web Services

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  1. Terminology Web Services Access to the National Agricultural Library Thesaurus via Web Services Tim Lynch AgNIC Technical Lead tlynch@nal.usda.gov

  2. Terminology Web Services NAL Thesaurus via Web Services • Impetus for development • Details of implementation • Bumps in the road • Futures

  3. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Impetus: AgNIC makes extensive use of NAL Thesaurus

  4. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Impetus: Details: XML-RPC, SOAP, REST Follows Alexandria Digital Library Thesaurus Protocol www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/thesaurus/

  5. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Supported functions • Search(word, level) • Fetch(concept) • FetchHierarchy(concept, depth, direction)

  6. Example Thesaurus Concept

  7. Example Thesaurus Concept

  8. Example Thesaurus Concept Name and Scope uniquely identify a concept

  9. Example Hierarchical Concept

  10. Example Hierarchical Concept

  11. Example Hierarchical Concept

  12. Example Hierarchical Concept

  13. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Impetus: Details: Bumps in the Road: buggy SOAP implementations

  14. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Impetus: Details: Bumps in the Road: Futures:

  15. NAL Thesaurus via Web Services Futures • Suggest(url) • Search • Fetch • FetchHierarchy

  16. Terminology Web Services Access to the National Agricultural Library Thesaurus via Web Services http://agclass.nal.usda.gov Tim Lynch AgNIC Technical Lead tlynch@nal.usda.gov

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