Re: GRDDLing to WSDL ontology

Another interesting point would be to investigate the
grounding of such transformation with the
formal semantics of RDFS.

Harry Halpin schrieb:

> 
> There's been some interest, at the last SWEO WG telecon at least, to 
> allow any XML WSDL vocabulary to be GRDDL'able (i.e. automatically 
> transformable) into a WSDL ontology.
> 
> Does anyone have a XSLT that takes XML WSDL files and transforms them 
> into RDF? Would anyone be interested in doing this?
> 
>         thanks,
>             harry
> 
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Jacek Kopecky wrote:
> 
>>
>> Dear Romina,
>> the main intent for the WSDL RDF ontology is basically to provide an RDF
>> view on WSDL documents - using an implementation of the transformation
>> described at w3.org/TR/wsdl20-rdf (one Java implementation is mentioned
>> at [1], but it can probably be implemented using XSLT as well), a SemWeb
>> agent will be able to integrate the WSDL data with its other RDF data.
>>
>> To respond to your concrete points:
>>
>> 1) many properties in the WSDL RDF ontology have only ranges because the
>> ontology is intended to be reusable outside its main purpose - if you
>> want to attach a WSDL interface to something, you don't need to create a
>> new property, just reuse wsdlrdf:interface. In general, domains and
>> ranges clarify and/or restrict the use of properties, but they limit the
>> unexpected reusability.
>>
>> 2) an example usage is combining WSDL data with any other RDF data on
>> the Semantic Web, or even just with other WSDL data in a WSDL repository
>> built on RDF.
>>
>> Since the WSDL RDF ontology is an RDF view of WSDL data, you do not have
>> to point to it from WSDL; any WSDL can be automatically transformed to
>> the RDF form.
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>> Jacek
>>
>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2007May/0043.html
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:35 +0200, romina pallandrini wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Group,
>>>    I have some question about the wsdl ontology[1] :
>>>
>>> 1) for a lot of properties it is defined only the range. Why?
>>>
>>> 2) what is an example of the usage of this ontology? I have to refer
>>> to wsdl-rdf from a WSDL maybe using SAWSDL?
>>>
>>> Apologies if this is not the correct newsgroup to send this
>>> question to.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance
>>> Romina
>>>
>>> [1] www.w3.org\ns\wsdl-rdf
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 

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