title: A Web Services architecture for UMLS Knowledge Sources.
abstract: A web service is a collection of industry standards to enable reusability of services and interoperability of heterogeneous applications. The UMLS Knowledge Source (UMLSKS) Server provides remote access to the UMLSKS and related resources. We propose a Web Services Architecture that encapsulates UMLSKS-API and makes it available in distributed and heterogeneous environments. This is the first step towards intelligent and automatic UMLS services discovery and invocation by computer systems in distributed environments such as web.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston-Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Parsa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mirhaji
authors.forename: Narendra
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kunapareddy
authors.forename: Yanko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Michea
authors.forename: Arunkumar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D017432:Unified Medical Language System