GEO-SEED: A Metadata Repository for Geosciences Web Service Discovery

Author

Brazier, Pearl ; Chebotko, Artem ; Gates, Ann Q. ; Salayandia, Leonardo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Texas - PanAmerican, Edinburg, TX, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

6-10 July 2009

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

359

Abstract

We propose a framework, which blends Web 2.0 and semantic Web technologies, to collect semantic descriptions of Web services and other software that enables their automatic discovery, invocation, composition, and interoperation. The pilot project, called GEO-SEED, aims to support Web services annotation and discovery for the geosciences. GEO-SEED provides both human and machine friendly interfaces represented by a structured wikiand a knowledge management system, respectively. While the former serves as the collaborative services annotation environment for geoscientists, the latter delivers acquired knowledge via RDF, OWL, OWL-S, SPARQL, and geosciences-based ontologies to powerful automated agents, such as scientific workflow management systems.

Keywords

Web services; geophysics computing; groupware; human computer interaction; knowledge management; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; GEO-SEED; OWL; RDF; SPARQL; Web 2.0; collaborative services annotation environment; geosciences Web service discovery; geosciences-based ontology; human interface; knowledge management system; machine friendly interface; metadata repository; semantic Web; structured wiki; Collaborative work; Geology; Humans; Knowledge management; OWL; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Web services; Workflow management software; Web service; eScience; geosciences; metadata; ontology; repository; service discovery; workflow composition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services - I, 2009 World Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3708-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.43

Filename

5190679