FYI. (01)
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Behalf Of Carlos Pedrinaci
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 12:23 PM
To: Semantic Web at W3C
Subject: iServe released (02)
Dear all,
On the occasion of the Extended Semantic Web Conference that is about to
start in Crete, we would like to announce publicly the release of iServe
[1], a registry for publishing Semantic Web Services (SWS) as linked data. (03)
In brief, iServe (04)
* is a registry of semantic Web service descriptions,
* published as linked open data,
* with a RESTful API and a SPARQL endpoint,
* integrated with authoring tools,
* supports multiple SWS formats,
* contains existing real and test-suite service descriptions. (05)
iServe is the first semantics-based Web service registry accessible
conveniently on the Web (see iServe Browser at [2]). The registry
transforms service annotations expressed in a variety of formats into
what we refer to as Linked Services -- linked data describing services
-- that can directly be interpreted by state-of-the-art Semantic Web
technologies for service discovery and further processing. (06)
Currently, iServe supports SAWSDL, MicroWSMO, WSMO-Lite and OWL-S. It
provides an homogeneous view [3] that covers WSDL services as well as
the increasingly popular Web APIs. (07)
Service descriptions can be submitted to iServe using the iServe Browser
user interface or directly via a RESTful API [4]. The data in the
registry is publicly available following the principles of linked data
(including a SPARQL endpoint at [5]). The data also links to the
original descriptions so as to avoid any loss of information and retain
the capabilities offered by the original descriptions. (08)
iServe now contains service descriptions from these sources: (09)
* OWL-S and SAWSDL test collections [6,7],
* descriptions of real services from the SOA4All project [8],
* some service descriptions imported from Seekda [9]. (010)
iServe is well integrated with two browser-based annotation tools,
namely SWEET [10] & SOWER [11], which simplify the authoring and
publication of semantic annotations of services. SWEET supports users
in creating annotations of Web APIs, while SOWER deals with WSDLs. (011)
iServe, SWEET & SOWER are all parts of a comprehensive tool suite,
called SOA4All Studio which is under development as part of the EU
project SOA4All [8]. The Studio includes support for service annotation,
publication, consumption and analysis. Additional tools in the suite
will be released in the forthcoming months. (012)
Credits:
- Dong Liu and Jacek Kopecky (core iServe team)
- Maria Maleshkova (SWEET)
- Alex Simov (SOWER) (013)
Further thanks to Dave Lambert and members of the SOA4All project for
their insightful comments. (014)
A good part of the team will be present at ESWC so if you are there and
want to discuss about iServe, feel free to approach us. (015)
Cheers,
Carlos (016)
[1] http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk
[2] http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/browser.html
[3] http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Simple_vocabulary
[4] http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/IServe_RESTful_API
[5] http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/data/execute-query
[6] http://semwebcentral.org/projects/owls-tc/
[7] http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/sawsdl-tc/
[8] http://www.soa4all.eu/
[9] http://webservices.seekda.com/
[10] http://sweet.kmi.open.ac.uk/
[11] http://stronghold.ontotext.com:8080/wsmoliteeditor/ (017)
--
Dr. Carlos Pedrinaci
Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom (018)
Tel: +44 1908 654773
Fax: +44 1908 653169 (019)
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The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt
charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). (020)
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