RE: Web Services Architecture Document

What I have not been able to figure out so far is the "then what?" part.
In other words, what is the goal for the OWL formalization of WSA
(besides being a showcase of semantic technologies)? Is there a plan to
do anything with that formalization? What kind of results would you like
to achieve once you apply a reasoning engine to that information?

Ugo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Katia Sycara
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 7:52 AM
> To: 'Stephane Fellah'; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Cc: katia@cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: Web Services Architecture Document
> 
> 
> 
> Staphane,
>  We are working on an OWL formalization of the concepts and 
> relationships in the Web Services Architecture. It will be 
> published along with the final Working Group product by end 
> of next week. 
>  As for OWL-S it is not a Working Group of the W3C, though 
> some of us would like it to become one.
>   Cheers, Katia
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Stephane 
> Fellah
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:27 PM
> To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Web Services Architecture Document
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a couple of questions related to the scope of your 
> working group. Is there any chance to see an OWL 
> formalization of the different concepts and relationships 
> exposed in the WS Architecture Document ? What would be the 
> next step for W3C : define again new XML schemas (syntaxic 
> approach) or using semantic web technologies (OWL). I clearly 
> favor the last option because the syntaxic approach is too 
> brittle to scale on the web. The OWL-S effort seems to 
> address the same problem, but uses different terms. Is there 
> any harmonization effort between the working groups ? 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> Best regards
>  
> Stephane Fellah
> Senior Software Engineer
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