Web Services in Document Image Analysis: Recent Developments on DIVAServices and the Importance of Building an Ecosystem

Gygli, Marcel; Liwicki, Marcus; Ingold, Rolf (27 April 2018). Web Services in Document Image Analysis: Recent Developments on DIVAServices and the Importance of Building an Ecosystem In: 2018 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) (pp. 334-339). New York: IEEE 10.1109/DAS.2018.40

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Web Services are being adapted into the workflows of many Document Image Analysis researchers. However, so far, there is no common platform for providing access to algorithms in the community. D IVA Services aims to become this by providing a platform that is open to the whole community to provide their own methods as Web Services. In this paper we present updates and enhancements made to the existing D IVA Services platform. This includes a new computational backend, a revamped execution workflow based on asynchronous communication, and the possibility for methods to specify their outputs. Furthermore, we discuss the importance of an ecosystem for such platforms. We argue that only providing a RESTful API is not enough. Users need tools and services around the framework that support them in adapting the Web Services and we introduce some of the tools that we built around D IVA Services.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	Business School > Institute for Public Sector Transformation > Data and Infrastructure Business School
Name:	Gygli, Marcel; Liwicki, Marcus and Ingold, Rolf
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
ISBN:	978-1-5386-3346-5
Publisher:	IEEE
Language:	English
Submitter:	Marcel Gygli
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2023 16:20
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2023 16:20
Publisher DOI:	10.1109/DAS.2018.40
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Services, Document Image Analysis, Ecosystem
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.20049
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20049