Paper Info
Title
SSWAP: A Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol for semantic web services.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol; pronounced "swap") is an architecture, protocol, and platform for using reasoning to semantically integrate heterogeneous disparate data and services on the web. SSWAP was developed as a hybrid semantic web services technology to overcome limitations found in both pure web service technologies and pure semantic web technologies. RESULTS: There are currently over 2400 resources published in SSWAP. Approximately two dozen are custom-written services for QTL (Quantitative Trait Loci) and mapping data for legumes and grasses (grains). The remaining are wrappers to Nucleic Acids Research Database and Web Server entries. As an architecture, SSWAP establishes how clients (users of data, services, and ontologies), providers (suppliers of data, services, and ontologies), and discovery servers (semantic search engines) interact to allow for the description, querying, discovery, invocation, and response of semantic web services. As a protocol, SSWAP provides the vocabulary and semantics to allow clients, providers, and discovery servers to engage in semantic web services. The protocol is based on the W3C-sanctioned first-order description logic language OWL DL. As an open source platform, a discovery server running at http://sswap.info (as in to "swap info") uses the description logic reasoner Pellet to integrate semantic resources. The platform hosts an interactive guide to the protocol at http://sswap.info/protocol.jsp, developer tools at http://sswap.info/developer.jsp, and a portal to third-party ontologies at http://sswapmeet.sswap.info (a "swap meet"). CONCLUSION: SSWAP addresses the three basic requirements of a semantic web services architecture (i.e., a common syntax, shared semantic, and semantic discovery) while addressing three technology limitations common in distributed service systems: i.e., i) the fatal mutability of traditional interfaces, ii) the rigidity and fragility of static subsumption hierarchies, and iii) the confounding of content, structure, and presentation. SSWAP is novel by establishing the concept of a canonical yet mutable OWL DL graph that allows data and service providers to describe their resources, to allow discovery servers to offer semantically rich search engines, to allow clients to discover and invoke those resources, and to allow providers to respond with semantically tagged data. SSWAP allows for a mix-and-match of terms from both new and legacy third-party ontologies in these graphs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1186/1471-2105-10-309
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
service system,web service,semantic web,service provider,semantics,internet,first order,quantitative trait loci,semantic search,search engine,semantic integration,algorithms,microarrays,nucleic acid,databases,description logic,bioinformatics,computational biology
World Wide Web,Semantic Web Stack,Computer science,Web standards,Data Web,Semantic Web,Web modeling,SOAP,Social Semantic Web,Bioinformatics,Web service
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
48
2.19
15
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Damian Gessler11047.61
Gary S. Schiltz2482.19
Gregory D. May3936.04
Shulamit Avraham4854.85
Christopher D. Town510719.95
David M. Grant6593.98
Rex T. Nelson7735.77