Semantic Web Services

• Semantic Web Services - daml.org
  • OWL-S Web Service Ontology is a specific OWL ontology designed to provide a framework for semantically describing such services from several perspectives (e.g., discovery, invocation, composition).
  • SWSF Semantic Web Services Framework
• Comparison of DAML-S and BPEL4WS
• The True Meaning of Service @ xml.com
• If Ontology, Then Knowledge @ xml.com
• A framework for semantic web services discovery
• SWSI Semantic Web Services Initiative
• Benjamin Grosof's homepage
• Supercharging WSDL with RDF
• WSDL-S @ w3.org
• DynamO - Dynamic Ontologies for Services
• The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 1: Use and combine Web services
• SWS Challenge - Automating Web Services Mediation Choreography and Discovery

Service-Oriented Architecture

• Web Services - Wikipedia article
• Top 10 Web Service FAQs
• WebServices.org
• Web Services Activity @ W3C
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Service-Oriented Architecture @ xml.com
• SOA For Dummies
• EMBL in XML

SOAP

• SOAP tutorial @ W3Schools
• SOAPClient.com resources and services for SOAP (client, UDDI browser, etc)

REST

RDDL

• XML Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)
  • URIs For Commonly Defined Link Purposes
• Cover Pages
• RDDL Me This: What Does a Namespace URL Locate?

Examples

• Amazon Web Services
• Google API

Life sciences

• Taverna project - biological workflows using web services
• BioMOBY - ontology-based messaging and data integration standard
  • BioHackathon 2008
• InParanoid - Eukaryotic Ortholog Groups
• Intelligent client for integrating bioinformatics services
• BIND SOAP - Biomolecular interaction network SOAP API
• Entrez Utilities Web Service from NCBI
• Web Services in Bioinformatics - introductory course

Notes

• semantic search engines can help discover web services (enhance UDDI with inferences)