About the Initiative
Mission
The goal of the Semantic Web Services Status & Strategy initiative is to bring Semantic Web service research, technology and developments further and to adjust the research roadmap and business strategies to recent technological achievements in related fields such as the Web, Semantic Web, Web2.0, or EAI to name a few.
The initiative represents a series of events and an discussion platform aiming at bringing together researchers and practitioners in order to adjust the research direction with the most recent developments in the aforementioned related fields.
Organizers
The initiative is driven by the SOA4All project in collaboration with various other Semantic Web services initiatives and projects.
Topics
The initiative provides a platform for diverse research ideas and results that influence the use, management and creation of Semantic Web service in today's Web and business environments. Amongst others, the initiative identified the following list:
- RDFa and microformats (e.g. SA-REST)
- Procedure-oriented (Minimal) service model and (WSMO-Lite) annotation
- Resource-oriented service models and (WSMO-Lite) annotation
- Relationship of SWS to Linked (Open) Data
- Relationship of SWS to open social networking data (e.g. Facebook OpenGraph)
- SWS on Mobile devices / networks and Siri (task and domain modelling, NLP-based UIs)
- Service customization and selection (e.g. Seekda)
- Unified Service Description Language
The listing includes various ways for modeling and describing services, for parametrizing and customizing services, but also topics that link service computing to the most recent achievements around Linked Data and the Social Web.