Describing Web Services for User-Oriented Retrieval
Duncan Hull, Robert D Stevens, Phillip Lord · 2005
Abstract. As of 2005, there are over 1 000 publicly available Web Services in the Life Sciences community and this number continues to grow. Describing them so that users can retrieve the service required to perform a given task is now a key problem in managing these services. This paper outlines some of the requirements and challenges for semantically describing Web Services for user-oriented retrieval in the Life Sciences domain. We briefly discuss the OWL-S, WSMO and my Grid ontologies and their suitability to tackling this problem. 1