In previous posts I talked about some of our work in the area of USDL initiated within the W3C Incubator Group. Together with SAP, mainly with Torsten Leidig, we have been trying to remodel USDL as a set of RDF(S) vocabularies that could better help sharing and exploiting USDL descriptions on the Web. An important [...]
After quite some time without posting, I’d like to retake it and break momentarily the series on USDL (on which both Torsten Leidig from SAP and I have continued working) to quickly post an interesting survey on Web APIs I just found out about. The survey comes from the Trove blog and it was aimed [...]
In my previous post I introduced USDL, the W3C Incubator Group associated to it and I mentioned that within it, I was going to work on devising a USDL version that would be ready for the application of Linked Data principles, the interlinking of USDL data with that hosted in other Linked Data repositories, etc. [...]
Just as the world of services started drifting away from complex technology stacks and getting closer to simple, HTTP-based, possibly RESTful solutions, SAP have generated a new large, ambitious, all-encompassing specification named Unified Service Description Language (USDL). What is most remarkable of this approach is that it is not yet another WS-* technology or another process [...]
The world of services on the Web has traditionally been limited to “classical” Web services based on WSDL and SOAP. For quite some time now, though, services on the Web are increasingly marked by the domination of Web APIs, which includes, but is not limited to, RESTful services. Despite their popularity currently the development of [...]
Last week I gave a keynote at the 4th Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing collocated with the 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. In this talk, I revisited some of the existing issues limiting the uptake of services on the Web, and highlighted how the [...]
As you may well be aware, Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch have worked on producing an updated version of the now famous Linked Data cloud. Quite some work has gone into streamlining the process this time using CKAN as a means to list all existing repositories and additional details such as their links, the vocabularies used, [...]