Re: [fwd] Draft charters for work on Semantics for WS

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:28:11AM -0000, Battle, Steven Andrew wrote:
> 
> The WSDL-S team openly acknowledge the strong relationship between
> WSDL-S and OWL-S, so this should be clarified in the SAW working group
> charter, which currently recognises only once source of input. One can
> see the core elements of WSDL-S in the OWL-S submission. This identifies
> OWL-S extensions for WSDL message (owl-s-parameter), binding and
> operation (owl-s-process) definitions.
> 
> The relevant sections of the OWL-S submission can be found in section
> 6.2
> http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-OWL-S-20041122#SECTION00062000000
> 000000000
> 
> This proposal is exactly along the lines of the WSDL working group
> charter. I feel strongly that in the interests of clarity the sentence
> below in the charter should be revised:
> 
> "A Member Submission, WSDL-S, related to this work, has been
> acknowledged by W3C and should be used as one input to the Working
> Group."
> 
> To something like:
> 
> "Member Submissions related to this work, WSDL-S and OWL-S (see
> 'Grounding OWL-S Services with WSDL and SOAP'), have been acknowledged
> by W3C and should be used as input to the Working Group."

The question of where WSDL-S and OWL-S WSDL bindings are mentioned in
the Semantic Annotations for WSDL charter is based on the differences
between the two:

The OWL-S Submission adds the following WSDL markup:
  + message/input@owl-s-parameter identifies OWL-S input or output
    owl-s:Parameter.
  + a new value for binding/encodingStyle identifies an encoding style
    for serializing owl-s:Parameters.
  + operation@owl-s-process identifies an OWL-S atomic process.
and properties attaching a WSDL doc to a WsdlAtomicProcessGrounding and
describing that WSDL:
  wsdlVersion
  wsdlDocument
  wsdlOperation
  wsdlService
  wsdlPort
  wsdlInput &
  wsdlOutput -- WsdlInputMessageMaps describing XSLT
                transformations of I/O messages.
  wsdlInputMessage &
  wsdlOutputMessage

The WSDL-S Submission adds the following WSDL markup:
  + modelReference, I guess can be affixed to any part of the component
    model (pure speculation on my part).
  + xsd:element/schemaMappings transform (XSLT, XQuery...) to "an
    external domain model/ontology", which appears to be more XML.
  + operation/precondition &
    operation/effect in a format opaque to WSDL-S.
  + interface/category links the interface to some taxonomy opaque to
    (not specified by) WSDL-S.

I *think* that the momentum is behind adding modelReferences to WSDL
components. The charter is a test of that hypothesis.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-sws-ig-request@w3.org 
> > [mailto:public-sws-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Carine Bournez
> > Sent: 15 November 2005 14:15
> > To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
> > Cc: www-ws@w3.org
> > Subject: [fwd] Draft charters for work on Semantics for WS
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is a copy of an announcement sent last week to the W3C 
> > membership (on the member-ws@w3.org mailing list).
> > All comments welcome! (for non members, on the 
> > public-sws-ig@w3.org mailing list). Thank you.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Following the announcement in [1], two charters have been drafted, 
> > > corresponding to the two points previously described.
> > > 
> > > The first one is a Semantics for Web Services 
> > Characterization Group.
> > > 
> > > 	http://www.w3.org/2005/10/sws-charac-charter.html
> > > 
> > > It specifically includes 4 issues to discuss.
> > > 
> > > The second one is Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group.
> > > 
> > > 	http://www.w3.org/2005/10/sa-ws-charter.html
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Discussion on both these charters should happen on this 
> > mailing list 
> > > (member-ws@w3.org).
> > > Thank you!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [1] 
> > > 
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2005JulSep/0024.htm
> > > l
> > > 
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > 

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