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Web Services in Action at the United Nations

»John Chelsom, »CSW Group Ltd

»Stephen Katz, »Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations

»Andrea Zisman, »Department of Computing, City University

»Ron Summers, »Dept Information Science, Loughborough University

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Abstract

In this presentation we discuss our experience of using web services and XML technologies to support interoperability and integration of data at the United Nations FAO. We evaluate the use of these technologies and discuss the benefits and drawbacks encountered during the development of our approach.

Keywords

».NET, »J2EE, »Ontology, »RDF, »Topic Maps, »WAICENT, »Web Services, »XML.