Selected References, based on Services, Protocols and Formats

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Axis

AXIS allows to create very fast a web service based on SOAP. It provides tools to create from your code WSDLs (Schemas used in web services). Additionally it helps you to deploy the service in a server like Tomcat. In about 1- 3 hours you can a simple service running.

Major problems are with the classpath and having it available outside the firewall (if you are behind one). Make sure that is is properly configured.

BIDM
BioPortal 2.0

BioPortal allows users to browse, upload, download, search, comment on, and create mappings for ontologies.

Users can browse and explore individual ontologies by navigating either a tree structure or an animated graphical view. Users can also view mappings and ontology metadata, and download ontologies.

Additionally, users who are signed in may also submit a new ontology to the library. All submissions to the library are reviewed.

DFDL
DLESE DDS
DOM
Fedora
LDAP
MTOM & XOP
OAI-PMH
ODL
OPeNDAP
Proof Markup Language (PML)

A Proof Markup Language for Semantic Web Services

Reference:
Pinheiro da Silva, P.; McGuinness, D. L.; & Fikes, R. E. A Proof Markup Language for Semantic Web Services. Technical Report, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University., 2004.

RDF

RDF model: triples triples triples

RDF triples are like sentences, composed of subject, predicate and object. The RDF triples are sometimes also known as resource, property, value triples.

So, informally a triple can be as follows, corresponding to the concept that "temperature is of type parameter":

Example 1: An Informal Triple

RDQL
REST
RSSWere you trying to access the RSS information for the page you were on? To do so, add '/RSS' -- in all capital letters -- to the page URL. The site will send you to the page's RSS content.
SOAP

SPARQL

From "SPARQL Query Language for RDF (W3C)"

RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web. RDF is often used to represent, among other things, personal information, social networks, metadata about digital artifacts, as well as to provide a means of integration over disparate sources of information. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF.

THREDDS
Web Ontology Language - OWL

OWL is a core component of the Semantic Web, which is a universe of metadata and ontologies expressed in machine-readable format along with software tools that allow the understanding of semantic relations among heterogeneous and distributed resources in the Web.

WSDL
XML-RPC
XQuery
Z39.50