SOA video from e-Framework

A slick video (animation) explaining Service-Oriented Architecture from a university and e-Science perspective.  Available in QuickTime or Windows Media, or you can read just the raw transcript.

Introducing the Service Oriented Approach

near the end it talks about the myGrid scientific workflow project.

via David Flanders

Just to revisit a theme that continues to concern me: are major library-related IT architecture groups talking to one another?  Should they be?  We learned not to build siloed systems, are we building siloed architectures?

Initiatives I am aware of include:

• e-Framework for Education and Research
• Digital Library Federation Services Framework
• Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee (buried as a subcommittee of a subcommittee, and password-protected, in typical ALA fashion)
• DEFF XML Web Services (Danish library Web Services)
• Education Commons - SOA in Higher Education
• Fedora Web Services and workflow
• DELOS Digital Library Architecture
• lots of work every year presented at the various Digital Library Conferences
• various grid and e-Science projects
• UPDATE 2007-06-02: California Digital Library (CDL) Common Framework ENDUPDATE

Previously:
December 20, 2006  my presentation on SOA and BPEL for Access 2006
July 16, 2006  library Web Services - are we making any progress