Current computer technology is seriously limited in how computers “talk” and
share data. Enabling two or more systems to communicate and exchange information
is a costly and time consuming process. The addition of semantic information to
describe Web Services – a current hot IT research topic – promises to unleash
the potential of dynamic, scalable and cost-effective e-Business applications,
allowing the real-time discovery of simple online services and automatically
combining these into more complex services.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), a leading European research
institute in the area of Semantic Web and Semantic Web services (SWS)
technologies, is pleased to announce the submission of its Web Services Modeling
Ontology (WSMO) to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
(http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/06/). The WSMO submission made by five W3C
Member organisations – DERI Innsbruck (AT), DERI Galway (IE), British Telecom
(UK), The Open University (UK), and SAP (DE) – is a comprehensive framework for
addressing Semantic Web services challenges and it is designed to help overcome
the current problems of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and
Service-oriented Architectures (SOA). WSMO has been in development over the past
two years by the WSMO working group lead by DERI.
