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WS2: Web Services and Semantics

Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>
Project Coordinator of WS2 IST project
W3C

25 September 2006, Brussels, Belgium

What is WS2?

Promote Web services and support work on integration of semantics
Specific Support Action
Running for 2.5 years: July 2004 to December 2006
Sole contractor: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Home page: http://www.w3.org/2004/WS2/

Actions and results

Increase European awareness and take-up of W3C work in relation to Web services:
- Talks in European conferences and events
- Outreach material (brochure...), Press Releases
- Seminar in March 2006
Technology demonstrators on:
- Using SOAP 1.2 and WSDL 2.0, on the popular W3C validation services
- Using combined Semantic Web and Web Services technologies (SPDL)

Actions and results

Increase European awareness, participation and take-up:
- Web Services Choreography Working Group
- Semantic Web Services Interest Group
Initiate work on a framework for semantics in Web services:
- Successful Workshop in Innsbruck, Austria (June 2005)
- Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Working Group (created early 2006)

Standardization work supported

Web Services Choreography Working Group:
- European participation: around 50%
- Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) 1.0 is a Candidate Recommendation
Semantic Annotations for Web Services Descriptions Working Group:
- European participation: around 70%
- First Public Working Draft published in June 2006
- Last Call Working Draft in September 2006

Goals for the end of the project

Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) 1.0 expected to become a W3C Recommendation
Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) expected to become a W3C Candidate Recommendation
Ongoing discussions about future standardization around Semantics and Web Services, in the public Semantic Web Services Interest Group
More outreach, including a more advanced demonstrator for Semantics in Web Services