Feta: A Light-Weight Architecture for User Oriented Semantic Service Discovery

@incollection{citeulike:2801131, abstract = {Semantic Web Services offer the possibility of highly flexible web service architectures, where new services can be quickly discovered, orchestrated and composed into workflows. Most existing work has, however, focused on complex service descriptions for automated composition. In this paper, we describe the requirements from the bioinformatics domain which demand technically simpler descriptions, involving the user community at all levels. We describe our data model and light-weight semantic discovery architecture. We explain how this fits in the larger architecture of the myGrid project, which overall enables interoperability and composition across, disparate, autonomous, third-party services. Our contention is that such light-weight service discovery provides a good fit for user requirements of bioinformatics and possibly other domains.}, author = {Lord, Phillip and Alper, Pinar and Wroe, Chris and Goble, Carole }, citeulike-article-id = {2801131}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11431053\_2}, journal = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications}, pages = {17--31}, posted-at = {2008-05-15 10:27:35}, priority = {2}, title = {Feta: A Light-Weight Architecture for User Oriented Semantic Service Discovery}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11431053\_2}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2801131 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2801131 TI - Feta: A Light-Weight Architecture for User Oriented Semantic Service Discovery JF - The Semantic Web: Research and Applications SP - 17 EP - 31 N2 - Semantic Web Services offer the possibility of highly flexible web service architectures, where new services can be quickly discovered, orchestrated and composed into workflows. Most existing work has, however, focused on complex service descriptions for automated composition. In this paper, we describe the requirements from the bioinformatics domain which demand technically simpler descriptions, involving the user community at all levels. We describe our data model and light-weight semantic discovery architecture. We explain how this fits in the larger architecture of the myGrid project, which overall enables interoperability and composition across, disparate, autonomous, third-party services. Our contention is that such light-weight service discovery provides a good fit for user requirements of bioinformatics and possibly other domains. AU - Lord, Phillip AU - Alper, Pinar AU - Wroe, Chris AU - Goble, Carole PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11431053_2 ER -