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LDaaSWS: Toward Linked Data as a Semantic Web Service

Authors:
Leandro José Andrade
Cássio Vinicius Prazeres

Keywords: Web of Data; Semantic Web Services; OWL-S; Linked Data

Abstract:
The Web was originally created to link HTML documents. Nowadays, the Web has improved its potential, and heterogeneous applications, resources, data and users can interact with each other. Two proposals for improvement of the current Web, Semantic Web and Web Services, have established standards that make the interoperability between heterogeneous Web applications possible. Another way to improve the current Web is the Web of Data, which provides guidelines (Linked Data) about how to use Semantic Web standards for publication and definition of semantic links on diverse data sources. However, there is a gap in the integration between Web Service based applications and Web of Data applications. Such a gap occurs because Web Services are ``executed'' and Web of Data applications are ``queried''. Therefore, this paper introduces the LDaaSWS (Linked Data as a Semantic Web Service), in order to provide Web Services for data sources from the Web of Data. The LDaaSWS can fulfill the current gap between Web Services and Web of Data applications by making the Web of Data ``executed'' through Web Services. In order to compare this work with current approaches for Web Services, this paper also presents an evaluation of LDaaSWS by comparing with SOAP Web Services.

Pages: 56 to 62

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: June 21, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-412-1

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Dates: from June 21, 2015 to June 26, 2015