title: SOA-based digital library services and composition in biomedical applications.
abstract: Carefully collected, high-quality data are crucial in biomedical visualization, and it is important that the user community has ready access to both this data and the high-performance computing resources needed by the complex, computational algorithms that will process it. Biological researchers generally require data, tools and algorithms from multiple providers to achieve their goals. This paper illustrates our response to the problems that result from this. The Living Human Digital Library (LHDL) project presented in this paper has taken advantage of Web Services to build a biomedical digital library infrastructure that allows clinicians and researchers not only to preserve, trace and share data resources, but also to collaborate at the data-processing level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Enjie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Gordon J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Clapworthy
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Viceconti
authors.forename: Debora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Testi
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D020407:Internet; D046609:Libraries, Digital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008490:Medical Informatics; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface