Specifics of "Aligning" Web Services and the Semantic Web
by Eric Prud'hommeaux

Table of contents

• Web Service Face to Face - Aligning With the Semantic Web
• Goals
• Outline
• Why "align with the semantic web"?
• What is RDF?
• Problem: HR/MedRecords in disjoint RDBs
• HR RDF picture:
• Health care provider RDF:
• Trivially merged graph
• Properties of RDF
• Unambiguous
• Scalable
• Organic
• Validatable
• Flexible
• How can we "align with the semantic web"?
• Define RDF Models
• Calc.wsdl
• RDF Model
• HTTP GET picture
• HTTP POST picture
• SOAP picture
• big picture
• Lessons Learned
• Modeling issues:
• URIs for element identification
• Proposed requirements