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http://jin.dis.vt.edu/fedsearch/ http://jin.dis.vt.edu/cgi-bin/fedsearch/dump-xml-list.pl?query=web http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september98/powell/09powell.html#Problem http://filebox.vt.edu/users/vdippold/fedsearch/ EMERGE - at NSA by Joe Futrelle SDARTS SDLIP STARTS www.openarchive.org http://www.gils.net/search.html -----Original Message----- From: Heitzso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mounting data sources to the net via web services Our branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is researching mechanisms to mount distributed data sources to the internet for querying and reporting. I ran across the Global Grid Forum's, GGF, http://www.globalgridforum.org Database Access and Integration Services Workgroup, DAIS-WG, http://www.globalgridforum.org/6_DATA/dais.htm which has two key documents outlining requirements and specs for mounting relational, xml, object and flat files on the web using web service technology: Grid Database Access and Integration: Requirements and Functionalities http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/grid-db/papers/DAIS:RF.pdf and Grid Database Service Specification http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/grid-db/papers/DAIS:StatementSpec.pdf There are two web service projects under development to implement the spec: SPITFIRE, using RPC, http://spitfire.web.cern.ch/Spitfire/ and OGSA-DAI, using documents, http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/NeSC/general/projects/OGSA_DAI/ I find this technology extremely exciting for the general purpose of mounting data sources on the net. Our focus is to enable health research, in which natality, mortality, morbidity, environmental, weather, geographic, economic, racial, industrial, insurance, hospital, etc. data can be queried in an integrated fashion. I'm posting this tangent to the list because I assume other individuals working with Axis might be interested in both the general problem of mounting data sources, and perhaps the specific problem of developing a query and reporting tool for health research that functions over numerous distributed data sources. I would appreciate anyone interested in working with us on the health research project to email me at my cdc email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Heitzso Information Technology Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
