| 179 | === Wrapping web services === |
| 180 | The following points outline our findings when exploring specific web services to wrap to become semantic. |
| 181 | * We decided that WABI services cannot be efficiently wrapped ''en masse'' because many (most?) of them output non-standardized, tab-delimited flatfiles; adding semantics into these files would require us to write a special parser for each service... BZZZZT! We suggest that, at a minimum, WABI services should output XML such that we can use generic parsers and generic tools (e.g. XSLT) to add semantics into these services. |
| 182 | * TOGO services are nicer, but don't have a WSDL (because they are RESTful). As such, there is no way for us to wrap them other than one-by-one... BZZZZZZT! |
| 183 | * We have asked Oswaldo to suggest which WABI services he thinks are most interesting/useful for his integration with the Spanish INB, and we will wrap these services during the hackathon as SADI and/or Moby services. |