XML meets news: Managing intelligent distributed news archives with web services and SOAP

The Internet as the fastest growing medium in the last five years has brought unmanageable amounts of information to the average user's fingertips. Since this growth will only continue, it is vital that users are supported in converting this universe of information into improved productivity. Failing to address information overload will apply costs to enterprises and individuals, often in ways that are not easily measured: Costs that result from lowered productivity and from bad business decisions. To really satisfy user needs and restricted budgets, the myriads of information need to be structured and organized in an intelligent and user-oriented way. Technically, appropriate architectures to integrate existing archives with an intelligent news retrieval engine have been developed. Appropriate standards such as XML-RDF and XTM as well as current technologies like SOAP communication and vector based AI methodologies for news classification are used. The key objective of the this paper is to describe an XML-based distributed news archive model that provides multilingual navigation and linking layers on top of distributed information resources in a self-learning environment, thus providing a sophisticated approach to manage multinational news archives with strong semantic interrelations. XML Web Services are building the transportation mechanisms for the integration of existing news archives into an intelligent distributed information service.