Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and ...

taking SOA and Web Services to the next step:
Some books have come out on Service Oriented Architecture, like SOA Principles of Service Design (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl). But while seemingly comprehensive, they only scrape the start of the problem. Much remains to be done, when applying to real world data sets. This book by Studer et al can be considered a next step in SOA. It points out huge problems that still remain. Earlier books on SOA and Web Services tend to focus on the syntactical issues. Which is the first and simplest step. But given a schema written by one party, there is typically a need for manual impedance matching with another schema on the same topic. Issues arise due to the writing, understanding and maintenance of ontologies. The book shows what the human in the loop has to do. Along with extended examples of actual realistic problems, taken from German government data.