Development of a Location Validation Web Service - In the context of the Web Technologies Seminar

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Computer Science - Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,3, University of Münster (Wirtschaftsinformatik), course: Web Technologies Seminar, language: English, abstract: In many applications unverified data is processed, which often leads to inconsistence or errors.
Therefore the need for applications to validate this data is high. A lot of types of data can be
verified easily but more complex user data such as full-text-addresses pose a great challenge
towards validation.
This paper proposes an exemplary solution for such a validation by describing the development
of a web service that allows a research conference database 1 to validate conference-location-
strings. The validation consists of checking the plausibility of the location string, correction and
standardization of the spelling, classification (City, State, Country, etc.) and providing corre-
sponding data such as latitude and longitude. For this purpose, the web service accesses the
GeoNames database. Consequently, the conference database receives a rich response which it
can also use to provide further information, e.g., embedded maps or HTML5-Microdata-
Markup.

Product details

• Authors: Markus Rothenhöfer
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2012
• EAN: 9783656249993
• ISBN: 978-3-656-24999-3
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 51 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V198397; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V198397
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Internet