The goal of the Semantic Technology & Ontologies Technical Group is to provide a forum for collaboration amongst projects, primarily within the Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures unit of the Internet of Services - Future Internet Initiative, on the application of semantics to SOA. In particular the technical group will focus on:

• Generic ontologies for describing services; current initiatives in this area include the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO)
• Generic ontologies for describing Grid entities. A Grid Resource Ontology was recently developed while there are ongoing efforts for the development of SLA, QoS and Security related ontologies
• Architectures and infrastructures for managing semantic SOA systems and applications. An example of this includes the Semantic Execution Environment currently being standardized within OASIS
• Architecture and methodologies for the development of Semantic Grid infrastructures such as the S-OGSA reference architecture
• Semantic languages and representation formalisms for representing services
• Use cases that demonstrate the business value delivered from the adoption of semantics in a SOA environment.

The technical group plans establish and maintain links with the Conceptual Models for Services Working Group which captures the work from previous, the NESSI Semantics Working Group and ongoing projects on Semantics applied to SOA.

Recent Events

Internet of Services 2009 - Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 Projects | June 10-11, 2009

ICT Lyon - Networking Session | November 25-27, 2008

Software-as-a-Service: On the Future of Semantics in SOA

• Report and Presentations | More Info

Internet of Services 2008 - Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 Projects | September 22-23, 2008