Service Web 3.0
After four decades of rapid advances in computing, we are embarking on the
greatest leap forward, one that includes revolutionary changes at all levels of
computing from the hardware through the middleware and infrastructure to applications and, more importantly, in intelligence.
Towards a Service Web
At a Glance
Project:
Service Web 3.0 (CSA)
Project coordinator:
Elena Simperl
Innsbruck University (AT)
Partners:
Open University (UK)
Akademia Ekonomiczna w Poznaniu (PL)
Semantic Technology Institute International (AT)
Duration:
January 2008 – December 2009
Total cost:
Even after four decades of rapid advances, computing is currently subject to revolutionary
changes at all levels, including hardware, middleware, network infrastructure, but more importantly intelligent applications.
Emerging technologies such as the semantic web
or web services transform the Internet from a
network of information to a network of knowledge and services.
The number of services that will be offered on
the Internet is expected to rise dramatically in
the next few years.
Paving the Way
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Programme:
FP7-ICT-2007-1 - Objective 1.2
Further information:
www.serviceweb30.eu
It is the mission of Service Web 3.0 to address
these emerging developments and contribute to
the implementation of framework programs and
their projects, and to support the preparation of
future community research and technological
development. The focus of Service Web 3.0 will
be to:
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Create, maintain, and publish roadmaps
for scientific or business audiences as a
means to plan and coordinate framework
and community activities for a future
service world.
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Support standardisation activities
semantic service descriptions.
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Organise different types of events ranging
from scientific conferences to industryoriented tutorials on topics related to semantic computing.
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Provide information material such as
white papers, feasibility studies, showcases and promotional movies to disseminate semantic technologies to the industry. This will introduce new business
models and systematically facilitate semantic web services and semantic web
technology adoption, in particular for
SMEs.
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Set up dedicated cross-project clusters focusing
on semantic web services and semantically enabled service-oriented architectures, and exploit
synergies.
Service Web 3.0 will pave the way to constructing a world where billions of parties are offering
and consuming services via advanced web technology and semantics.
Scientific and Technological Objectives
The objectives of this support action are threefold:
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Installing roadmapping facilities in order
to depict visions, future research, and its
applicability. We will develop a public
roadmap on semantic technologies as a
result of a community-driven process.
•
Transferring technology and know-how
for dissemination of semantic technology.
We will publish the results of our work
and the associated coordinated efforts in
the form of a roadmap book and will create further promotional materials such as
a movie on the next generation of the Internet through the usage of semantic
technologies.
Serviceweb 3.0 Project 216937 – May, 2008
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Building and supporting clusters and networks for increased visibility of the
achievements in the domain. We will actively contribute to the Future of the Internet initiative and will install further
cross-project working groups within STI
International, which will operate according to pre-defined procedures and will
benefit from the technological communication infrastructure of the organisation.
Thematically, activities within the project Service Web 3.0 are focused around the integration
of three mainstream technologies: web, serviceoriented architectures and Web 2.0, and their
extension into semantics as a means to achieve
interoperability and scalability.
From Vision to Reality
The support action brings together three academic partners and the international organisation STI International. The three academic partners are all founding members of STI International. STI International is a mature association
of interested scientific, industrial and governmental parties sharing a common R&D objective: to establish semantics and semantic technologies as an integral part of modern computer
engineering.
To do so, STI coordinates and actively contributes to major research and education activities
in Europe and promotes greater awareness and
faster take-up of semantic technology in full
synergy with these activities. Service Web 3.0
will especially profit from the network that STI
International brings in and the links to all relevant experts in the scientific and technology
areas of the project.
Our activities at roadmapping, standardisation
and dissemination level will be aligned with the
newly founded Future of the Internet initiative.
Furthermore, we will play an active role in ensuring the sustainability of major scientific and
industry-oriented series of events in the fields of
semantic computing (E/A/ISWC, ESTC).