IServe: a linked services publishing platform
Publication date
2010-06-11
Document type
Konferenzbeitrag
Author
Organisational unit
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
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ISSN
Conference
Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web (ORES-2010)
Series or journal
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Periodical volume
596
Book title
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Keyword
Enterprise environment
Linked datum
Ontology repositories
Open platforms
Semantic information
Service description
Service orientation
Abstract
Despite the potential of service-orientation and the efforts devoted so far, we are still to witness a significant uptake of service technologies outside of enterprise environments. A core reason for this limited uptake is the lack of appropriate publishing platforms able to deal with the existing heterogeneity in the service technologies landscape and able to provide expressive yet simple and efficient discovery mechanisms. In this paper we describe iServe, a novel and open platform for publishing services which aims to better support their discovery and use. It exposes service descriptions as linked data expressed in terms of a simple vocabulary for describing services of different kinds with annotations in diverse formalisms. In addition to describing iServe, this paper also highlights the set of principles behind iServe, which we believe are essential for other generic repositories of semantic information notably ontology repositories.
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