As a service and example to the statistical sciences community, NISS has embarked on creation of a set of Web services. Web services are an exciting new form of distributed computing that enable users to write their own client software on the basis of a publicly distributed Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document describing the service. One of many Web services primers is available at www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/08/07/webservices.html.

NISS Web Services will be hosted at the URL www.niss-webservices.org. As they are developed, new services will be announced on this page.