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requires provision of Web service(s) to access or interact with digital resources (e.g. data, information, products) published using WIS.

BENEFIT:  

Web services support 'machine-actionability' (i.e. the capacity of software systems to access, interoperate, and reuse data with little or no human intervention) because humans increasingly rely on computational support to deal with data as a result of an increase in volume, complexity, and velocity (i.e. creation speed) of data.

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