Semantic Markup for Semantic Web Tools: A DAML-S Description of an RDF-Store

Easy integration of available tools will be a key success factor for the future of the Semantic Web. We envision that semantic descriptions of the tools themselves will play an important part in addressing this issue. Motivated by this vision we used DAML-S (a key initiative to support automated management of Web services) to describe Sesame (an RDF(S) storage and query engine). This paper discusses the major problems that we encountered as well as suggested solutions. This work is relevant to other Semantic Web research groups who wish to annotate their tools or to use annotated tools. Also, we hope to offer helpful input to the DAML-S coalition in the further development of their standard.

[1]  Frank van Harmelen,et al.  Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema , 2002, SEMWEB.

[2]  Mikko Laukkanen,et al.  Composing Workflows of Semantic Web Services , 2004 .

[3]  Ian Horrocks,et al.  A software framework for matchmaking based on semantic web technology , 2003, WWW '03.

[4]  Takahiro Kawamura,et al.  Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities , 2002, SEMWEB.

[5]  Nigel Shadbolt,et al.  Agent-based semantic web services , 2003, WWW '03.

[6]  Timothy W. Finin,et al.  A Planner for Composing Services Described in DAML-S , 2003 .

[7]  Marta Sabou,et al.  An experience report on using DAML-S , 2003, WWW 2003.

[8]  Jerry R. Hobbs,et al.  DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services , 2001, SWWS.

[9]  Julian Padget,et al.  Brokerage for Mathematical Services in Monet , 2004 .

[10]  Frances M. T. Brazier,et al.  Composing Web Services using an Agent Factory , 2004, AAMAS 2004.

[11]  Jerry R. Hobbs,et al.  DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web , 2002, SEMWEB.

[12]  Anupriya Ankolekar,et al.  Concurrent Execution Semantics of DAML-S with Subtypes , 2002, International Semantic Web Conference.

[13]  Sheila A. McIlraith,et al.  Agent-based composite services in DAML-S: The behavior-oriented design of an intelligent semantic web , 2003 .

[14]  Amit P. Sheth,et al.  Semantic E-Workflow Composition , 2003, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

[15]  António Luís Lopes,et al.  From DAML-S to Executable Code , 2002 .

[16]  Carole A. Goble,et al.  A Suite of Daml+Oil Ontologies to Describe Bioinformatics Web Services and Data , 2003, Int. J. Cooperative Inf. Syst..

[17]  Nicola Guarino,et al.  Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE , 2002, EKAW.