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<h1 class="summary">Semantic Web Services Interest Group</h1>

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<p><em><strong>This Interest Group has been closed at the end of February 2008, as defined by its <a href=
"http://www.w3.org/2005/09/sws-ig-charter">last charter</a>. Please use the www-ws @w3.org mailing list for discussions.</strong></em></p>

<p class="summary">The Semantic Web Services Interest Group was part of the.
<span class="activity">Web Services Activity</span>. The purpose of the
Semantic Web Services Interest Group was to provide an open forum for W3C
Members and non-Members to discuss Web Services topics essentially oriented
towards integration of Semantic Web technology into the ongoing Web Services
work at W3C.</p>

<p>The Semantic Web Services Interest Group has been partly supported by the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/WS2/">WS2 project</a> [EC IST FP6 program, call
2].</p>
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<h2><a id="news" name="news">News</a></h2>
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  <li>The Semantic Annotation for WSDL Working Group has published the Recommendation of its
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sawsdl">Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema</a> specification.</li>
<li>Along with this Recommendation, a <a href=
"http://www.w3.org/TR/sawsdl-guide">Usage Guide</a> has been produced. It contains lots of example
descriptions and ontologies for use in various Semantic Web Services scenarios.</li>
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<h2><a id="SAWSDL" name="SAWSDL">Links</a></h2>

<p>The Semantic Annotation for WSDL (SAWSDL) Working Group has been working
in 2006-2007. More information about this group (how to participate, drafts, ..)
available on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/">SAWSDL WG public
home page</a>.</p>
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<h2><a id="contrib" name="contrib">How to contribute?</a></h2>
<ul>
  <li>on the <a href="#lists">mailing list</a>, by sending emails about your
    work on the Web Services area, even if you don't work on semantics yet.
    You can also contribute to help/get help from other people in the
    (Semantic) Web Services community.</li>
  <li>on the <a href="#irc">IRC channel</a>, by intiating live discussions.
    You can also <strong>add URIs to the group's <a
    href="./scratchpad">scratchpad</a> and contribute useful comments on
    existing technologies</strong>. <a href="./scratchpad/howto.html">How To
    use the scratchpad</a></li>
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<h2><a id="topics" name="topics">Open topics</a></h2>

<p>Some discussion topics</p>
<ul>
  <li>Semantics with W3C Web services technologies</li>
  <li>Semantics-enabled services design</li>
  <li>Semantic Web technologies in Web services discovery, composition,
  ...</li>
  <li>Mapping WS technologies to SW (RDF)</li>
  <li>What do you use semantics in Web services for? Do you need/use
    Semantics?</li>
  <li>Web services and agent technologies</li>
  <li>...</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a id="related" name="related">Related documents</a></h2>

<p>Specifications have been submitted by W3C members in 2004-2005:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/07/">OWL Web Ontology
    Language for Services (OWL-S)</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/06/">Web Service Modeling
    Ontology (WSMO)</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/07/">Semantic Web Services
    Framework (SWSF)</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/10/">Web Service Semantics -
    WSDL-S</a></li>
</ul>

<p>The acknowledgment of a Submission request does not imply an endorsement
by W3C, including the W3C Team, any of the Members, or any of the Host
Institutes. It merely records publicly that the Submission request has been
made by the submitting Member. The specification may not be referred to as
"work in process" of the W3C.</p>
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<p>The Interest Group mailing list is now closed. Discussions on Web Services at W3C can
take place at <a
href="mailto:www-ws@w3.org">www-ws@w3.org</a> (publicly archived mailing list).</p>

<p>In order to participate to join this list (public and open to non-W3C
members) <a
href="mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe">subscribe to the
www-ws mailing list</a>, please check the <a
href="../../../Mail/Request">subscription procedure</a>.</p>
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<h2><a id="irc" name="irc">#sws-ig : Internet Relay Chat (IRC)</a></h2>

<p>The IRC channel is no longer active.</p>
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<address>
  <a href="mailto:carine@w3.org">Carine Bournez</a>, W3C Staff <small>$Date: 2008/04/03 16:43:16 $</small>
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