WISE - Workbench for Semantic Web Services

Abstract

The onset of the Semantic Web has brought manyinnovations for enabling assisted interactions on the WorldWide Web through document annotation. Many efforts haveemerged throughout the past years, including RDF, OWL,OWL-S and WSMO, all seeking to improve the currentweb from a static one into a more dynamic one. SemanticWeb Services are an effective way to facilitate the discovery,selection and composition of services and to integrate theminto workflows. Presently, however, not many tools offer thefunctionality to facilitate the annotations of such services toontology frameworks such as OWL-S or WSMO. Presentedhere is an Editing Suite for such a scenario. The aim of thiswork is to provide a tool that provides two core features. Thefirst is a generic framework that allows the extraction of datafrom an SAWSDL document, as well as having an integratedvisual editor for building composite business processes. Thesecond is a set of hooking mechanisms, able to extend theabove framework so as to provide mappings from SAWSDL toany other ontology framework.