Paper Info
Title
Capturing the functionality of Web services with functional descriptions
Abstract
Many have left their footprints on the field of semantic RESTful Web service description. Albeit some of the propositions are even W3C Recommendations, none of the proposed standards could gain significant adoption with Web service providers. Some approaches were supposedly too complex and verbose, others were considered not RESTful, and some failed to reach a significant majority of API providers for a combination of the reasons above. While we neither have the silver bullet for universal Web service description, with this paper, we want to suggest a lightweight approach called RESTdesc. It expresses the semantics of Web services by pre- and postconditions in simple N3 rules, and integrates existing standards and conventions such as Link headers, HTTP OPTIONS, and URI templates for discovery and interaction. This approach keeps the complexity to a minimum, yet still enables service descriptions with full semantic expressiveness. A sample implementation on the topic of multimedia Web services verifies the effectiveness of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11042-012-1004-5
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Semantic Web,Service description,Service discovery
World Wide Web,Semantic Web Stack,Computer science,Web standards,Semantic Web,Data Web,Web modeling,Social Semantic Web,Web service,WS-Policy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
2
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.54
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruben Verborgh1630105.49
Thomas Steiner2747.84
Davy Deursen3212.38
Jos De Roo410514.59
Rik Van de Walle52040238.28
Joaquim Gabarró Vallés6302.91