 - The Semantic Web is an idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a user's needs. Berners-Lee observes that although search engines index much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. He foresees a number of ways in which developers and authors, singly or in collaborations, can use self-descriptions and other techniques so that context-understanding programs can selectively find what users want.
The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group at W3C is in charge of defining the specifications for the Semantic Web.
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| How many architectures do you need?: This article compares three different architectural views and addresses the need for a single, encompassing model - one that is service-oriented, process-oriented and event-driven. |
| Big Blue pushes SOA education: According to analyst reports, IBM is leading the vendor charge toward service-oriented architecture. The best way to increase adoption is to increase education. |
| SOA Books Library: In the SOA Books Library, discover books to better understand and implement open source SOA, enterprise mashups, cloud-based applications, and more. Free excerpts are provided. |
| Win SOA Design Patterns book: Answer this question about the origin of design patterns and win a copy of Thomas Erl's acclaimed book "SOA Design Patterns." |
| SOA Advisor: Business analysis and SOA: The SOA Advisor newsletter is a series of articles written by Thomas Erl that discuss the benefits and principles of service-oriented architecture. |
| SOA Advisor: The principles of service-orientation: The SOA Advisor newsletter is a series of articles written by Thomas Erl that discuss the benefits and principles of service-oriented architecture. |
| Chapter of the week: SOA project planning aspects: This chapter, excerpted from Service-Oriented Architecture Compass, focuses on how to plan an SOA project. |
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