- From: Nick Gibbins <nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:43:17 +0000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, carine@w3.org, public-esw@w3.org
Hi Dan, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> writes: > [...] Do people here see "SW Services" as the next big thing? As a > blue skies research area? As ripe for standardisation? If there were > an Interest Group, or Working Group, or 'taskforce' or mailing list > devoted to this topic, would you be interested in participation? I believe that SW Services will be 'the next big thing', simply because it offers an opportunity to reconcile the two main - but largely disparate - areas of Web development. I'd be interested in participating, as I suspect would several of my colleagues. Although much of the groundwork for SWS has been laid (in terms of deployed WS and SW technologies and incipient SWS technologies such as DAML-S), I think that any attempt to standardise within the short to medium term (two years) would be rather premature. Perhaps go for an interim SWAD-style effort as a bridge between blue skies and the standards track? In addition to the aforementioned DAML Services, there are other projects in the SW/WS intersection, of which the Semantic Grid[1] is a good example. Finally, it may be worth widening this tentative call for participation to the multi-agent systems community since their work has some strong resonances with SWS development (as we outline in [2]). [1] http://www.semanticgrid.org/ [2] http://eprints.aktors.org/archive/00000167/ -- Nick Gibbins nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk IAM (Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia) tel: +44 (0) 23 80598347 Electronics and Computer Science fax: +44 (0) 23 80592865 University of Southampton
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