Semantic DESCaaS - Extending the Description as a Service Concept to Enable Semantic Annotations

Michels Henry, Roth Marcell, Beltran Arturo

Abstract

Semantic interoperability covers the conflict-free and meaningful exchange of resources by improving the mutual understanding of participants in a communication process. Especially, the communication between humans via machines is fraught with misunderstand- ings including machine-machine communication processes. The focus is on an improved support of the human participants by enabling intelligent and independent behaviour of the machines. The realization of semantic interoperability inheres two main tasks in practice. On the one hand, there is a substantial need of unambiguous vocabularies corresponding to the purpose of a communication process. On the other hand, the suitable vocabularies have to be used by all participants. In this paper, we concentrate on the second issue. We present a well-tried strategy and recent technical solutions enabling the annotation of Web services with appropriate knowledge representations. We will draw the current limits of this approach with respect to certain kinds of resources and come up with a conceptual and partly technical solution to semantically enhance any type of resource.