Semantic Web

Overview & Tutorials

Semantic Web for Data and Service Integration*

iPlant's Semantic Web Program delivers a semantic infrastructure to allow people to describe data and services (web sites), discover those services, engage them, and handle the results -- all based on the semantics (or meaning) of the data and/or services. iPlant Semantic Web technologies do this in a manner that allows computers to process this information in a high-throughput manner, for example, to aid you in finding new services based on what they do or the data they handle. We will be releasing these technologies throughout 2011 to build a semantically-aware capability into iPlant's cyberinfrastructure.

The iPlant Semantic Web Architecture uses the web itself as the palette for data and service integration. It is designed so that users get the value of a semantically-aware infrastructure, while never needing to know the underlying details. The technology is designed to allow iPlant or anyone
to contribute and gain from semantic enhancement by allowing
any web site to semantically enhance its offerings.

The platform allows any web site to

1. Describe its data and services using a standard, universal syntax and rich, computable semantic
2. Be discovered by others seeking a type of service, type of input data, or type of output data
3. Be invoked by others using a standard, universal syntax and shared, public semantic
4. Return a response in a standard, universal syntax and shared, public semantic

This means that clients -- people like you and me using computer programs -- can

1. Discover services based on the type of service sought, or the type of data accepted, or the type of data returned
2. Invoke discovered services using a standard, universal syntax and shared, public semantic
3. Parse a service response using a standard, universal syntax and shared, public semantic

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Read More about the About iPlant’s Semantic Web Architecture in the documents below:

• Semantic Web Architecture 1

• Semantic Web Architecture 2