GISIN Web Services

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GISIN Web Services
Enabling Invasive Species Data Interchange
Jim Graham, Annie Simpson, Catherine Jarnevich,
Greg Newman, Thomas J. Stohlgren
GISIN technical team
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Web Services

• Allows computer to computer communication
• Examples
• Web page inserts Weather, Stocks, News
• Bank transfers
• Software updates

Computer
Web Service
Computer
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Request/Response

• HTTP Request/Reponse

Server Computer
Client Computer
Request
Response
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GISIN Web Service

• Built on HTTP Request/Response

Data Provider Server
GISIN Server
GISIN Toolkit
Request
Response
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GISIN Web Services

• Based on TAPIR
• TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval
• Based on REST (HTTP Request/Response)
• Removed Complex Queries
• Toolkit Available Online
• Provide Data ? Web Services
• Uses the GISIN Protocol

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Steps to Connect

• Install toolkit
• Configure database to GISIN protocol
• Similar to file upload
• Register with GISIN
• Manually cache data to GISIN
• Setup automatic cache (future)

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Issues

• Security restrictions
• Maintaining server and access
• Server re-tasked
• Network reconfigured
• Performance
• Reliability