RE: Overlap between OWL-S and WSDL

Hi, Bram,

Just try CMU's WSDL2OWL-S.

http://www.daml.ri.cmu.edu/wsdl2owls/

Cheers
Jun

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Subject: Overlap between OWL-S and WSDL



Hi All,

I am interested in creating my own Ontology using OWL-S for an application 
involving distributed multimedia with QoS.

My question involves the overlap between OWL-S and WSDL. I read this from 
the article "OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services":

==
As indicated by Figure 3, the two languages do overlap in the area of 
providing for the specification of what WSDL calls ``abstract types'', 
which in turn are used to characterize the inputs and outputs of services. 
WSDL, by default, specifies abstract types using XML Schema, whereas OWL-S 
allows for the definition of abstract types as (description logic-based) 
OWL classes 5.
==
http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.1B/owl-s/owl-s.html
==

Does this mean that chunks of OWL-S defining atomic processes and 
inputs/outputs can be directly re-used as the WSDL operations and messages?

Thanks for any advice!

Rob
:)

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Robert Mark Bram
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