Developing Semantic Web Services
- Book Review,
by H. Peter Alesso
From Book News, Inc.
After assessing the current limitations of HTML and XML, Smith (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) proposes a language pyramid of web markup languages, and provides an introduction to the resource description framework (RDF) and the web ontology language (OWL). The final section examines an example on-line semantic book service, applies Petri nets to semantic design analysis, and reviews semantic search engines and search agents currently under development. The CD-ROM contains a C# program for editing, parsing, and validating XML, RDF, and OWL documents.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
David Martin, editor OWL-S Coalition
"well-informed . . . the book … fill[s] a need that, to my knowledge, hasn’t been met at all."
Book Description
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is also the originator of the next generation Web architecture, the Semantic Web. Currently, his World Wide Web consortium (W3C) team works to develop, extend, and standardize the Web’s markup languages and tools. The objective of the Semantic Web Architecture is to provide a knowledge representation of linked data in order to allow machine processing on a global scale. The W3C has developed a new generation of open standard markup languages which are now poised to unleash the power, flexibility, and above all—logic—of the next generation Web, as well as open the door to the next generation of Web Services. There are many ways in which the two areas of Web Services and the Semantic Web could interact to lead to the further development of Semantic Web Services. Berners-Lee has suggested that both of these technologies would benefit from integration that would combine the Semantic Web’s meaningful content with Web Services’ business logic. Areas such as UDDI and WSDL are ideally suited to be implemented using Semantic Web technology. In addition, SOAP could use RDF payloads, remote RDF query and updates, and interact with Semantic Web business rules engines, thereby laying the foundation for Semantic Web Services. This book presents the complete Language Pyramid of Web markup languages, including Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL) and OWL-Services (OWL-S) along with examples and software demos. The source code for the "Semantic Web Author," an Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Markup Languages is included on CD-ROM with the book.
About the Author
H. Peter Alesso is a technology innovator with twenty years research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He earned an M.S. and an advanced Engineering Degree from M.I.T. and has published several software titles as well as numerous scientific journal and conference articles. H. Peter Alesso is the author of e-Video: Producing Internet Video as Broadband Technologies Converge, Addison-Wesley, July 2000, and co-author of The Intelligent Wireless Web, Addison Wesley, 2001. Craig Smith, Ph.D. is an engineer with 30 years experience in research and development, and application of advanced technologies. He is currently employed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and serves as the Lawrence Livermore Chair Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He has published numerous scientific journal and conference articles on advanced engineering topics. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1975.
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