Web Service Share
The Web Service Share website is the primary business at Sequentum. The website facilitates online data sharing and allows anyone to define new public data standards.
Why publish your data
Why would you share your data with anyone else? You may after all have spent a long time collecting and refining your data.
The answer is simple. if nobody knows about your website displaying your quality data, the data is really not worth much to you. This is why you may want to publish a small subset of your data with a link back to your website.
If you are running an online shop you may want to publish your products and pricing, so price comparison websites can use your product data and give you free referrals.
If you are running a hotel booking engine you may want to publish an image, a short description and a link back to the booking page for your hotels, so travel portals can use your data and give you free referrals.
There are thousands of other good reasons why you may want to publish a subset of your data to promote your website, and you are likely to find this type of promotion is much more effective than normal advertising. This is because your data is used as an integrated part of 3rd party websites rather than tagged on advertisement.
How to publish your data
To publish your data on Web Service Share, you must have a web service that returns your data as XML. You can then submit your web service using the Suggest Web Service page and our staff will publish your web service on Web Service Share.
When you submit a web service to our website, a Web Service Share editor will map your web service to an existing data standard or create a new standard for your service. Once a web service is mapped to a data standard, our code generator automatically generates class libraries and documentation for the web service.
If you create a user account on Web Service Share before you submit your web service, the published web service will be associated with your account and you can change all the published information. If your web service has been published before you create a user account, you can request to have the web service associated with your user account.
How to publish a web service by yourself
After creating a user account you get access to your user account section from where you can publish web services and define new data standards.
Publishing your own web service can be a complex task depending on the complexity of your web service. Please read the web service guide for more information. The web service guide is available once you login to your user account section.
How to define a new data standard
The data standards are the corner stone of Web Service Share. A data standard specifies the output format of a web service. Most web services output data in a propriety format, so we insert a mapping layer between a web service and a subscriber, so the subscriber is guaranteed the output he receives follows a common format no matter the actual format of the web service output.
If your web service delivers common data, such as product data, you probably want to use an existing data standard so it is easier for subscribers to use your data. However, if you have some extra properties you want to publish, you may want to extend an existing data standard, so subscribers can retrieve a subset of your data using the existing data standard or get all your data using your extended data standard.
You can also create a brand new data standard if there is no appropriate existing data standard for your data.
Please read the data standard guide for more information. The data standard guide is available once you login to your user account section.