W3C Workshop
on
Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services

June 9-10, 2005
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria

Scope of the Workshop

In:

• Description of semantics for Web services and its use for registries, discovery, composition, choreography...
• Ontologies for Web services
• Specific problem domains: versioning, security, management, internationalization
• Integration in Web Architecture (representation of services and interaction)

Out:

• Pure Semantic Web technologies without a Web services-related target/use case
• Pure Web services technologies (low-level pieces in the stack)

Workshop Goal

• Meeting with Web services and Semantic Web communities, larger than the Semantic Web Services Interest Group
• Review use cases and existing research efforts
• Define key domain concepts during discussions
• Find essential problem(s) to address and direction(s) to the solution(s)
• Give feedback to W3C Team

Background Material from W3C

Essential W3C materials:

• W3C specifications
• W3C process
• W3C principles and mission
• W3C Patent Policy

Criteria for success

The workshop will be considered successful if we have

• Identified main gaps and gates between current WS and SW developments
• Identified possible directions and priorities