Spinning Threads for the Next Generation of the Web
by Steve Bratt

Table of contents

• Spinning Threads for the Next Generation of the Web
• Questions Addressed
• The Evolving Web
• Engineering the Foundation for Tomorrow's Web
• Web Services and Semantic Web
• What is a Web Service?
• Web Services Stack
• SOAP
• SOAP Structure
• Web Service Description
• Problem: Silos and Babel
• Problem: Lack of Machine-Processable Semantics
• Analogy:
• What Computers "Understand"
• Toward Processable Search Semantics
• Ways to Enable Machine Processing
• What Is the Semantic Web?
• Semantic Web Stack
• Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• RDF Triples
• RDF Can Represent Relational Table Data
• ... or More Complex Relationships
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Merging Semantic Web Data
• Conclusions
• Other Web Services and Semantic Web References
• Acknowledgements
• World Wide Web Consortium
• END
• The Process of Engaging a Service
• Choreography of Services