Web Services and More: Integrating Business Processes and Information Across Agencies
by David Booth, Ph.D

Table of contents

• Web Services and More: Integrating Business Processes and Information Across Agencies
• Speaker Info
• Outline
• W3C
• What Is a Web Service?
• Traditional Web Application
• Web Service
• Integrating Business Processes
• Travel Service Example
• Integrating Across Departments, Agencies
• SOAP
• Web Service Description
• Web Service Description Language (WSDL)
• The Need for Semantics
• Representing Semantics
• "Babelization"
• Re-using Data Across Agencies
• Common Problems
• Underlying Needs
• Ontologies
• Example Ontologies
• URLs as Globally Unambiguous Identifiers
• Examples of URLs as Identifiers
• Standardizing Ontologies
• W3C Web Ontology Working Group
• What Is RDF?
• RDF Triples
• Example Triple
• RDF Uses
• Why RDF?
• Outline
• END