Linked USDL: a vocabulary for web-scale service trading

Pedrinaci, Carlos; Cardoso, Jorge and Leidig, Torsten (2014). Linked USDL: a vocabulary for web-scale service trading. In: 11th European Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC 2014), 25-29 May 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_6

Abstract

Real-world services ranging from cloud solutions to consulting currently dominate economic activity. Yet, despite the increasing number of service marketplaces online, service trading on the Web remains highly restricted. Services are at best traded within closed silos that offer mainly manual search and comparison capabilities through a Web storefront. Thus, it is seldom possible to automate the customisation, bundling, and trading of services, which would foster a more efficient and effective service sector. In this paper we present Linked USDL, a comprehensive vocabulary for capturing and sharing rich service descriptions, which aims to support the trading of services over the Web in an open, scalable, and highly automated manner. The vocabulary adopts and exploits Linked Data as a means to efficiently support communication over the Web, to promote and simplify its adoption by reusing vocabularies and datasets, and to enable the opportunistic engagement of multiple cross-domain providers.

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