Title: Describing web services with semantic metadata

Authors: Sinuhe Arroyo, Jose Manuel Lopez-Cobo

Addresses: DERI-Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse, 13 A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria. ' Atos Origin S.A.E., Albasanz 12 E-28037 Madrid

Abstract: Web services are self-describing, self-contained applications that can be published, located, and invoked through common web protocols. Self-descriptions are in fact a form of metadata that provide details on the services offered. Semantic web services are, thus, an extension of such metadata-based descriptions to richer ontology-based description semantics. This paper provides an account on the main usage scenarios of semantic web services, as a roadmap for metadata research on the topic.

Keywords: semantic metadata; semantics; ontology; web services; semantic web.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.008772

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2006 Vol.1 No.1, pp.76 - 82

Published online: 23 Jan 2006 *

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