Metaserver

Introduction
MetaServer is RPA (Robotic Process Automation) software that does repetitive work so that you and your employees don't have to.

MetaServer is a central broker providing a collated view (similar to a database view) for dispersed web resources. It is used to collect data from various web services, web pages, databases, or other online resources/repositories and then present the combined results to the client using a standard web protocol (e.g. HTTP with HTML, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.).

Styles of use
The purpose of such a system is to provide one or several of the following:
 * a unified view on multiple resources
 * easy comparison of the data
 * standardized access to different repositories
 * calibration of the data
 * determining the data consensus

Example MetaServer projects
Typical, widespread implementations of MetaServers are:
 * Meta-Search-Engines
 * DNS MetaServers
 * Protein Structure and Function Prediction Gateways
 * Computer Game MetaServers
 * Text Mining MetaServers (e.g. BioCreative Metaserver - BCMS)