[apologies for cross-posting]
Dear all,
On the occasion of this years Extended Semantic Web Conference, we would
like to announce publicly the release of SmartLink [1], which will also
be presented during the ESWC demo session later today.
WHAT
Smart Link is short for "SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked
Services". Simply put, it is an easy-to-use Web application aiding users
in the creation and browsing of Linked Data about Web APIs & services.
To this end, SmartLink allows API or service providers to describe and
expose services based on rich and interlinked Linked Data. Amongst other
things, SmartLink provides an interface to populate and navigate RDF
service annotation repositories, such as iServe [2] and a dedicated
SmartLink repository covering services non-functional properties (NfP).
HOW
SmartLink builds on existing technologies and standards to enable wide
reach of its annotations. Users can annotate arbitrary APIs and services
- whether REST-ful or WSDL/SOAP-based - via a simple Web editor.
Annotations are stored in an RDF store following established service
schemas (e.g., WSMO-Lite, Minimal Service Model). In addition, SmartLink
extends those schemas with a simple RDF schema for non-functional
properties [3] which makes use FOAF, DC, SAWSDL or the CommonTag
ontology to support interoperability. Storage of annotations is spread
across two public RDF-stores: iServe handles all functional properties
while an additional SmartLink-specific store (see [4]) hosts further
non-functional descriptions. A unified interface to store and query
annotations across both repositories is provided by the SmartLink editor
and annotation interface [5].
For more details please have a look at http://smartlink.open.ac.uk/ or
meet us during the ESWC demo session later today, should you happen to
be around.
Best,
the SmartLink team
[1] http://smartlink.open.ac.uk
[2] http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk
[3] http://purl.org/smartlink/service-nfp/
[4] http://ckan.net/package/smartlink
[5] http://smartlinkopen.ac.uk/smartlink
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Dr. Stefan Dietze
Knowledge Media Institute,
The Open University,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 858217
Fax: +44 (0) 1908 653169
Web: http://purl.org/dietze/
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