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Evolution and Overview of Linked USDL

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Exploring Services Science (IESS 2015)

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For more than 10 years, research on service descriptions has mainly studied software-based services and provided languages such as WSDL, OWL-S, WSMO for SOAP, and hREST for REST. Nonetheless, recent developments from service management (e.g., ITIL and COBIT) and cloud computing (e.g. Software-as-a-Service) have brought new requirements to service descriptions languages: the need to also model business services and account for the multi-faceted nature of services. Business-orientation, co-creation, pricing, legal aspects, and security issues are all elements which must also be part of service descriptions. While ontologies such as e\(^3\)service and e\(^3\)value provided a first modeling attempt to capture a business perspective, concerns on how to contract services and the agreements entailed by a contract also need to be taken into account. This has for the most part been disregarded by the e\(^3\) family of ontologies. In this paper, we review the evolution and provide an overview of Linked USDL, a comprehensive language which provides a (multi-faceted) description to enable the commercialization of (business and technical) services over the web.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.foaf-project.org/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.

  3. 3.

    http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1.

  4. 4.

    http://www.ebxml.org/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/usdl/.

  6. 6.

    http://www.linked-usdl.org/.

  7. 7.

    http://github.com/linked-usdl/.

  8. 8.

    https://w3id.org/lss-usdl/v2/.

  9. 9.

    Turtle – Terse RDF Triple Language (http://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/).

  10. 10.

    The definition of the model onlineMusicServiceModel is not provided in this running example.

  11. 11.

    http://linked-usdl.org/ns/usdl-business-roles.

  12. 12.

    The prefixes :gr, :dcterms, :foaf, and :vcard refer to relevant vocabularies such as GoodRelations and Dublin Core.

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  1. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Jorge Cardoso

  2. Department of Informatics Engineering, CISUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Jorge Cardoso

  3. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Carlos Pedrinaci

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Cardoso, J., Pedrinaci, C. (2015). Evolution and Overview of Linked USDL. In: Nóvoa, H., Drăgoicea, M. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 201. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14980-6_5

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