Presented to the CIO Council XML Working Group by Eliot Christian, USGS February 14, 2001

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Presented to the CIO Council XML Working
Groupby Eliot Christian, USGS February 14, 2001
Universal Description, Discovery, and
Integration (UDDI) and the U.S. Federal
Government
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Outline

• UDDI in the context of Government
• The UDDI Specification
• Shortcut for Populating a U.S. Federal Registry

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What is UDDI?

• Goal speed interoperability and adoption for web
  services
• The UDDI Initiative
• Partnership among businesses
• Development of agreed specifications (planned to
  submit to a standards body)
• Shared operation of a Web business registry

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UDDI in Government
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Citizens, businesses, agencies, search engines,
and software apps query the registry to discover
services
Agencies, businesses, and standards organizations
register different types of services
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Agencies register themselves and their services
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Citizen, business, or agency uses service data to
facilitate interaction
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Registry operator assigns a unique key to each
registered business and service
operatorssynchronize updates among all UDDI
registries
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Outline

• UDDI in the context of Government
• The UDDI Specification
• businessEntity
• API Procedures for Inquiry
• API Procedures for Publishing
• save_businessDetail.xml (SOAP message)
• Shortcut for Populating a U.S. Federal Registry

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UDDI businessEntity

• Name
• Description
• Contact
• type, name, phone, fax, e-mail
• Identifiers
• list of identifiers that classify a business
  (DUNS, NAICS, other)

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UDDI businessEntity
Contact

• XML document
• Created by end-user company (or on their behalf)
• Can have multiple service listings
• Can have multiple taxonomy listings

Phone Address Email
businessEntity
businessKey name URL description contacts business
Services identifierBag categoryBag
businessService
serviceKey tModelKey Name Description BindingTempl
ates
Key Name Description BindingTemplates
keyedReference
tModelKey keyName keyValue
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API Procedures for Inquiry

• Find
• find_business
• find_service
• find_binding
• find_tModel
• Get Detail
• get_businessDetail
• get_serviceDetail
• get_bindingDetail
• get_tModelDetail

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API Procedures for Publishing

• Security
• get_authToken
• discard_authToken
• Save
• save_business
• save_service
• save_binding
• save_tModel
• Delete
• delete_business
• delete_service
• delete_binding
• delete_tModel

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save_businessDetail.xml

• lt?xml version"1.0" encoding"utf-8"?gt
• ltEnvelope xmlns"http//schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/e
  nvelope/"gt
• ltBodygt
• ltbusinessDetail generic"1.0"
  operator"Microsoft Corporation"
• truncated"false"
  xmlns"urnuddi-orgapi"gt
• ltbusinessEntity authorizedName"Eliot
  Christian"
• businessKey"2343091A-FFB9-4
  347-9DBC-5875B630F9CB"
• operator"Microsoft
  Corporation"gt
• (content of businessEntity on next
  slide)
• lt/businessEntitygt
• lt/businessDetailgt
• lt/Bodygt
• lt/Envelopegt

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businessEntity content
ltdiscoveryURLsgt
ltdiscoveryURL useType"businessEntity"gt
http//test.uddi.microsoft.com/discovery?
businessKey2343091A-FFB9-4347-9DBC-58
75B630F9CB lt/discoveryURLgt
lt/discoveryURLsgt ltnamegtGILS Maintenance
Agencylt/namegt ltdescription
xmllang"en"gt Organization for
promotion and maintenance of the Global
Information Locator Service standard.
lt/descriptiongt ltcontactsgt
(content of sample contact on next slide)
lt/contactsgt ltbusinessServicesgt
(content of sample businessService on
second slide following)
lt/businessServicesgt
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contact content
contact content

ltcontact useType"information"gt
ltdescription xmllang"en"gt
U.S. Geological Survey
lt/descriptiongt ltpersonNamegt
Eliot Christian
lt/personNamegt ltaddressgt
802 National Center, Reston, VA 20191 USA
lt/addressgt lt/contactgt
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businessService content
businessService content
ltbusinessService
businessKey"2343091A-FFB9-4347-9DBC-5875B630F9C
B" serviceKey"8BB17930-7198-4
9B4-864A-1616B921B8BA"gt ltnamegtHome
Pagelt/namegt ltdescription
xmllang"en"gtWeb home pagelt/descriptiongt
ltbindingTemplatesgt
ltbindingTemplate
bindingKey"5624BD4C-4757-49C8-B299-28813E01A3C4"
serviceKey"8BB17930-719
8-49B4-864A-1616B921B8BA"gt
ltaccessPoint URLType"http"gt
http//www.gils.net
lt/accessPointgt
lttModelInstanceDetails/gt
lt/bindingTemplategt
lt/bindingTemplatesgt lt/businessServicegt

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Test Examples

• The following examples are drawn from the test
  UDDI register at http//test.uddi.microsoft.com

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Outline

• UDDI in the context of Government
• The UDDI Specification
• Shortcut for Populating a U.S. Federal Registry

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UDDI view of Existing Locator Records

• A U.S. Federal Government UDDI Register can be
  populated by an Internet gateway to existing
  registers of locator records

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Sources of Locator Records

• U.S. Government Manual
• GPO Locator Records
• LSU Directory of Agencies
• GSA Directories
• DoD Resource Locator
• Agency Telephone Directories
• Clearinghouse Directories...

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UDDI/GILS Gateway
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UDDI GILS
UniversalDescription,Discovery, and Integration
GlobalInformation LocatorService
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Further Information

• UDDI Organization Sitehttp//www.uddi.org
• Microsoft UDDI Test Sitehttp//test.uddi.microsof
  t.com