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# Introduction to data services

## Overview

### What is a data service?

A data service is:

- a standard Web service that interacts with TIBCO EBX®.

  SOAP data services can be dynamically generated based on data models from the 'Data Services' area.

- a RESTful service that allows interaction with EBX®.

  The built-in REST data services have an OpenAPI interface, they are also self-descriptive through the returned metadata.

They can be used to access some of the features available through the user interface.

##### See also

- WSDL/SOAP
- REST

### Lineage

Lineage is used to establish user permission profiles for non-human users, namely data services. When accessing data using WSDL interfaces, data services use the permission profiles established through lineage.

### Glossary

##### See also

- Data services

## Using the Data Services area user interface

##### Note

This area is available only to authorized users in the 'Advanced perspective'.

##### Related concepts

- Dataspace
- Dataset
- Data workflows
- Introduction

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