OWL 

OWL is the Web Ontology Language. OWL is intended to be used when the information contained in documents needs to be processed by applications, as opposed to situations where the content only needs to be presented to humans. OWL can be used to explicitly represent the meaning of terms in vocabularies and the relationships between those terms. See «http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features» for details.  

 

OWL-S 

OWL-S is the Ontology Web Language for Services. OWL-S is an OWL ontology for (formally) describing properties and capabilities of Web services. See «http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s» for details. 

 

RDF 

Resource Description Framework. The RDF is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. For details see «http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer». 

 

SAWSDL 

Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema. SAWSDL defines how to add semantic annotations to various parts of a WSDL document such as input and output message structures, interfaces and operations. See «http://www.w3.org/TR/sawsdl» for details. 

 

SAWSDL 

Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema. SAWSDL addresses semantic annotations to various parts of a WSDL document, by delivering a set of extension attributes for WSDL that allows description of semantics aspects of services. See «http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl» for details. 

 

SOAP 

Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP is a light-weight, XML-based messaging protocol for encoding Web service request and response messages for transmission over a network. SOAP messages may be carried by various Internet protocols including HTTP, MIME, and SMTP. See «http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-soap12-part0-20070427» for details. 

 

SWSI 

Semantic Web Services Initiative. SWSI is an ad hoc initiative of academic and industrial researchers. See «http://www.swsi.org» for details. 

 

SWSL 

Semantic Web Services Language. SWSL is used to specify formal characterizations of Web service concepts and descriptions of individual services. See «http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/SUBM-SWSF-SWSL-20050909» for details. 

 

SWSO 

Semantic Web Services Ontology. SWSO presents a conceptual model by which Web services can be described, and an axiomatization, or formal characterization, of that model. See «http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/SUBM-SWSF-SWSO-20050909» for details. 

 

UDDI 

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. UDDI is a platform-independent, Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet. See «http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/0818-msm-ws/slide23-0.html». 

 

URI 

Universal Resource Identifier. A symbol used to locate resources on the Web. URIs are defined by IETF. Within the IETF standards the notion of URI is an extension and refinement of the notions of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Relative Uniform Resource Locators. See «http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt» for details. 

 

Web Service 

A Web Service is defined by the W3C as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. See «http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch» for details. 

 

WSDL 

Web Service Description Language. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services. See «http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl» for details. 

 

WSMO 

Web Service Modeling Ontology. WSMO is an approach based on the Web Service Modeling Framework (WSMF) for describing various aspects related to Semantic Web services. For details see «http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d2/v1.4». 

 

WSMX  

Web Service Modelling eXecution environment. WSMX is the reference implementation of WSMO. It is an execution environment for business application integration where enhanced web services are integrated for various business applications. See «http://www.wsmx.org» for details.