| smartlink |
description |
Smart Link is short for "SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services". Simply
put, it is an easy-to-use Web application aiding users in the creation of Linked Services
- semantic service annotations following Linked Data (http://linkeddata.org/) principles.
Amongst other things, it provides an interface to populate and query the Linked Services
repository iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk).
SmartLink builds on existing technologies and standards to enable wide reach of its
annotations. Users can annotate arbitrary services - whether REST-ful or WSDL/SOAP-based
- via a simple Web form. Annotations are stored in RDF following established service
schemas, namely WSMO-Lite (http://cms-wg.sti2.org/TR/d11/) and the Minimal Service
Model (MSM, http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Simple_vocabulary) which follow
a light-weight approach to Semantic Web Services. Storage of annotations is spread
across two public RDF-stores: iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk) handles all functional
properties defined in the MSM schema while an additional and SmartLink-specific SESAME
repository hosts further non-functional service properties. A unified interface to
store and query annotations across both repositories is provided by SmartLink. |
