Re: using RDF (OWL) in WSDL

Jacek,

Seems to me that Arthur has a point. Why not simply extend the WSDL schema
to allow for rdf:Description? Seems quite reasonable to me.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
phone: +1 508 234 3624

jacek Kopecky wrote on 05/28/2003 04:30:09 AM:

> 
> Arthur, I hadn't understood the action the way you presented it below,
> but I'll look into that too. Here's my initial thought:
> 
> When we present the RDF mapping of WSDL, the OWL description of that (in
> other words the OWL schema for WSDL) will naturally include the
> properties we cannot express in XML Schema.
> 
> The area where the interaction of RDF and WSDL needs some work is
> embedding RDF in WSDL, which is how I understood the action, even when I
> was writing it in IRC.
> 
> Your alternative, i.e. to allow rdf:Description or rdf:RDF in the XML
> Schema schema for WSDL, would simplify the reuse of existing RDF
> processors a bit, but then the syntax would usually look like this:
> 
> <wsdl:message name="Foo">
>  <rdf:Description rdf:about="<targetNamespaceOfFoo>#message(Foo)">
>    <ns:responsibleArchitect rdf:resource="mailto:jacek@systinet.com"/>
>  </rdf:Description>
> </wsdl:message>
> 
> The rdf:Description element would not be tied to its parent message in
> any way then and it could be simpler if we just allowed rdf:RDF as a
> child of wsdl:definitions or introducing wsdl:semantics element which
> would contain elements in any other namespace that would be assumed to
> contain semantic descriptions of the stuff defined in the parent WSDL
> document.
> 
> With my proposal, wsdl:rdfDescription would be just another
> extensibility element and the interaction with existing RDF processors
> would involve the WSDL processor rewriting the wsdl:rdfDescription
> element to the rdf:Description element (see above) which is a trivial
> thing; and then passing the rewritten element to the RDF processor.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>                    Jacek Kopecky
> 
>                    Senior Architect
>                    Systinet Corporation
>                    http://www.systinet.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 18:46, Arthur Ryman wrote:
> > Jacek,
> > 
> > I thought the action was to look at using OWL in our WSDL
> > Specification to encode the assertions that could not be expressed
> > using XML Schema. It would be useful to have the additional assertions
> > encoded in a formal way so we could avoid natural language
> > ambiguities, and maybe even have an OWL processor validate WSDL
> > documents.
> > 
> > Your proposal for putting RDF in WSDL is interesting, but wouldn't it
> > defeat existing RDF processors? Why not just change the WSDL schema to
> > allow RDF elements?
> > 
> > 
> > Arthur Ryman
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jacek Kopecky
> > <jacek@systinet.com>
> > Sent by:
> > www-ws-desc-request@w3.org
> > 
> > 05/27/2003 11:59 AM
> > 
> >         To: 
> > WS-Description WG
> > <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
> >         cc: 
> >         Subject: 
> > using RDF (OWL) in WSDL
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was tasked to check how RDF statements (including OWL statements)
> > could be represented in WSDL. Here's what I found:
> > 
> > RDF defines two XML elements which can be used to contain RDF
> > statements
> > - rdf:RDF and rdf:Description. As far as I can see, no XML Schema for
> > these elements (I've found only one at [1]) puts them into any of the
> > substitution groups for WSDL extensibility elements; therefore these
> > elements cannot be used as WSDL extensibility elements.
> > 
> > As I think RDF statements should be embedded in WSDL using
> > extensibility
> > elements, I propose that we create an element wsdl:rdfDescription in
> > the
> > substitution group globalExt. The semantics of this element would be
> > the
> > same as of 
> > 
> > <rdf:Description rdf:about="URIref to the current WSDL component">...
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > <wsdl:message name="Foo">
> >  <wsdl:rdfDescription>
> >    <ns:responsibleArchitect rdf:resource="mailto:jacek@systinet.com"/>
> >  </wsdl:rdfDescription>
> > </wsdl:message>
> > 
> > In English, the architect responsible for the WSDL message Foo is me.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> >                   Jacek Kopecky
> > 
> >                   Senior Architect
> >                   Systinet Corporation
> >                   http://www.systinet.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>

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