WISE - Workbench for semantic web services

Abstract

The onset of the Semantic Web has brought many innovations for enabling assisted interactions on the World Wide Web through document annotation. Many efforts have emerged throughout the past years, including RDF, OWL,OWL-S and WSMO, all seeking to improve the current web from a static one into a more dynamic one. Semantic Web Services are an effective way to facilitate the discovery,selection and composition of services and to integrate the min to workflows. Presently, however, not many tools offer the functionality to facilitate the annotations of such services to ontology frameworks such as OWL-S or WSMO. Presented here is an Editing Suite for such a scenario. The aim of this work is to provide a tool that provides two core features. The first is a generic framework that allows the extraction of data from an SAWSDL document, as well as having an integrated visual editor for building composite business processes. The second is a set of hooking mechanisms, able to extend the above framework so as to provide mappings from SAWSDL to any other ontology framework.