Posts with keyword: web_services

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Web Services and IDEA

Fri Nov 10 18:28:00 2006

Sears Tower(click to enlarge) I spent yesterday in Chicago giving a talk on Web services to the Illinois Data Exchange Affiliates (IDEA). IDEA is a group of seven northern Illinois counties and over 200 municipal governments that was formed to promote data exchange for eGovernment. Greg Sanders of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is one of the chief instigators of IDEA and asked me to come speak. I had a blast and really enjoyed the trip. The basic idea: simple, inexpensive design rules for Web sites can lead to big data exchange opportunities. Start with public data, do simple
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LDS Church Has RSS

Mon Mar 20 16:42:00 2006

The LDS Church (BYU's sponsoring organization) has added RSS feeds to their Web site.
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SOA in the Public Sector

Mon Feb 13 10:05:00 2006

I'm quoted in an article in Public CIO magazine. I was interviewed for this story on the use of SOA and Web services in the government so long ago, I can hardly remember it. The article, especially the last line, makes me look less enthusiastic about SOA in the public sector than I am. I think public sector CIOs have a great opportunity to use the governance powers that they already have, in connection with relatively modest expenditures on infrastructure to build real connectivity between departmental silos.
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