Web Services

Web Services and Semantic Web

Web services integrate programs across applications, across boundaries.

Semantic Web integrate data across applications, across boundaries.

Web Services : Program
Semantic Web : Data


Everything has a URI

Don't say "color" say

Can be encoded in XML
Simplicity and mathematical consistency
This is called Resource Description Framework (RDF)

RDF: Semantic Links join the web. ( Name: Who, Zip : Where)

Events connected to people, Flights connected to place, MAp connected to addressbook, people