| | 1 | = Overview = |
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| | 3 | This is just a brief summary of web service integration discussions between R. Bruskiewich (IRRI), National Institute for Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS) and MAFFIN in Tsukuba (Wed. 13 February 2008) |
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| | 5 | == Ontology Collaboration == |
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| | 7 | * Japanese contributions to Agrovoc (Agricultural Thesaurus) + Japanese language |
| | 8 | * How to facilitate usage of ontology? |
| | 9 | * Share GCP platform support for ontology + multilingual support with Japanese researchers in this area (could be a collaboration through NIAS)? |
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| | 11 | == Web services Wrapping of Japanese Agriculture (mostly Rice) Databases == |
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| | 13 | * for connection to the [http://irfgc.irri.org International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium (IRFGC)] rice web services network. |
| | 14 | * Preliminary answers to the following technical issues: |
| | 15 | * what data (types) will be shared from which databases? |
| | 16 | * what some of the research "use cases" will be (i.e. services to be implemented)? |
| | 17 | * who will specifically be able to contribute technically to the implementation? |
| | 18 | * what preferred languages (Perl, Java) will be used to create the web service providers? |
| | 19 | * what preferred database access technologies might be used (e.g. for Java (JDBC, Hibernate, or ????)? |
| | 20 | * practical issues relating to web service architecture: will there be dedicated server? proxies, firewalls? |
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| | 22 | * Action: Martin Senger to return to Japan for web services “implementation” visit based on web service use cases to be documented over coming month. |
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