Supporting the creation of semantic RESTful service descriptions
Publication date
2009-12-01
Document type
Conference paper
Author
Organisational unit
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
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Conference
8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), 25-29 Oct 2009, Washington D.C., USA
Series or journal
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Periodical volume
525
First page
1
Last page
14
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Abstract
Research on semantic Web services (SWS) has been devoted to reduce the extensive manual effort required for manipulating Web services by enhancing them with semantic information. Recently, the world around services on the Web, thus far limited to " classical" Web services based on SOAP and WSDL, has significantly evolved with the proliferation of Web applications and APIs, often referred to as RESTful Web services. However, despite their success, RESTful services are cur- rently facing similar limitations to those identified for traditional Web service technologies and present even further difficulties, such as the lack of machine-processable service descriptions. In order to address these challenges and to enable the wider adoption of RESTful service tech- nologies, we advocate an integrated lightweight approach for formally describing semantic RESTful services. The approach is based on the use of the hRESTS (HTML for RESTful Services) and MicroWSMO microformats, which enable the creation of machine-readable service de- scriptions and the addition of semantic annotations, correspondingly. Finally, we present SWEET-Semantic Web services Editing Tool-which effectively supports users in creating semantic descriptions of RESTful services based on the aforementioned technologies.
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