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The Web standardization consortium W3C has developed a lightweight bottom-up specification, Semantic Annotation for WSDL (SAWSDL), for adding semantic annotations to WSDL service descriptions. In this chapter, we describe SAWSDL, and then we present WSMO-Lite and MicroWSMO, two related lightweight approaches to Semantic Web Service description, evolved from the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) framework. WSMO-Lite defines an ontology for service semantics, used directly in SAWSDL to annotate WSDL-based services. MicroWSMO and its basis, hRESTS, are microformats that supplement WSDL and SAWSDL for unstructured HTML descriptions of services, providing WSMO-Lite support for the growing numbers of RESTful services.
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Web Services Description Language, http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/.
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Input faults are uncommon but possible in some WSDL message exchange patterns.
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eCl@ss Standardized Material and Service Classification, http://eclass-online.com.
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Further details on how microformats work can be found at http://microformats.org.
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The XSLT stylesheet for hRESTS/MicroWSMO is available at http://cms-wg.sti2.org/TR/d12/v0.1/20081202/xslt/.
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Fensel, D., Facca, F.M., Simperl, E., Toma, I. (2011). Lightweight Semantic Web Service Descriptions. In: Semantic Web Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19193-0_12
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