[apps-discuss] request for review: draft-bvandervalk-sadi-00.txt (individual submission)

[Ben Vandervalk <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

I have recently submitted an I-D (as an individual) regarding RDF/OWL-based
web services called SADI (Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration).

My intent is to put this I-D on the standards track, and I have been
advised that the first step is to solicit comments/reviews on this list, in
order to guage interest.

There are currently three implementations of SADI in Java, Perl, and
Python, which are available from http://sadi.googlecode.com/. The Java and
Perl implementations were created by the authors, whereas the Python
implementation was created independently by Jim McCusker of MSU. The Python
implementation does not yet implement all of the features in the draft, but
we think it is likely that Jim will expand his implementation in time, or
that other parties will create additional implementations of SADI.

I am unfamiliar with IETF procedures regarding individual submissions and
would appreciate any advice in that regard as well.

Thanks for your consideration!

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories. This is an Individual Submission.

       Title : SADI: Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration
       Author(s) : Ben Vandervalk, E. Luke McCarthy, Mark D. Wilkinson
       Filename : draft-bvandervalk-sadi-00.txt
       Pages : 31
       Date : 2012-01-31

This document describes Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration
(SADI), a set of best practices for implementing stateless web
services that consume RDF data as input and generate RDF data as
output. The goal of SADI is to establish conventions that will
enable a much higher level of interoperability between web services
from independent providers than is currently possible under the
widespread use of WSDL/XML and RESTful services. Under SADI,
interoperability depends on the shared use of predicate vocabularies,
rather than the shared use of particular XML schemas, JSON
structures, or ad hoc data formats. Through the use of OWL to
describe service input and output datatypes, SADI enables: i)
automated discovery of services that provide data or computations of
interest, and ii) automated matchmaking between local data and
available services. By iterative application of the former two
capabilities, SADI enables semi-automated construction of arbitrarily
complex workflows across independent service providers.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bvandervalk-sadi-00.txt



-- Ben Vandervalk
Wilkinson Lab, University of British Columbia