From Web Services to The Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse

David Booth
W3C Fellow and Senior Research Architect
Hewlett-Packard

April 5, 2005
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Math & Computer Building, Room 5158, University of Waterloo

View Video of Presentation in HI Alive Archive: Research Seminars Archive 2004-2005

Abstract
In this presentation, David Booth will begin with a brief look at Web services and the roles of W3C standards such as SOAP, WSDL and Choreography. He will then address the implications of the proliferation of Web services, the need for machine-processable semantics and the problem of "babelization." This growth in the Web leads to the fundamental question of how data can be integrated or re-used on a global scale. Finally, he will explain how Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, ontologies and OWL address this problem.

Biosketch
David Booth is a W3C Fellow from Hewlett-Packard. His main interests are Web Services and the Semantic Web. He is alternate W3C team contact (with Hugo Haas) for the Web Services Description Working Group. At HP, he is a Senior Research Architect. He was Director of Training for Bluestone Software before Bluestone was acquired by HP, and led Bluestone's use of web technologies for training purposes. He also served on the W3C's Advisory Committee as Bluestone's representative. Before working at Bluestone, he was a research scientist for ATT Bell labs. He has been programming for many years on a variety of operating systems, currently preferring Java or Perl. Dr. Booth holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he specialized in programming language design.