%0 Book Section %1 pedrinaci2014linkedusdl %A Pedrinaci, Carlos %A Cardoso, Jorge %A Leidig, Torsten %B The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges %D 2014 %E Presutti, Valentina %E d’Amato, Claudia %E Gandon, Fabien %E d’Aquin, Mathieu %E Staab, Steffen %E Tordai, Anna %I Springer International Publishing %K description linked service usdl %P 68-82 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_6 %T Linked USDL: A Vocabulary for Web-Scale Service Trading %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_6 %V 8465 %X Real-world services ranging from cloud solutions to consulting currently dominate economic activity. Yet, despite the increasing number of service marketplaces online, service trading on the Web remains highly restricted. Services are at best traded within closed silos that offer mainly manual search and comparison capabilities through a Web storefront. Thus, it is seldom possible to automate the customisation, bundling, and trading of services, which would foster a more efficient and effective service sector. In this paper we present Linked USDL, a comprehensive vocabulary for capturing and sharing rich service descriptions, which aims to support the trading of services over the Web in an open, scalable, and highly automated manner. The vocabulary adopts and exploits Linked Data as a means to efficiently support communication over the Web, to promote and simplify its adoption by reusing vocabularies and datasets, and to enable the opportunistic engagement of multiple cross-domain providers. %@ 978-3-319-07442-9

@incollection{pedrinaci2014linkedusdl, abstract = {Real-world services ranging from cloud solutions to consulting currently dominate economic activity. Yet, despite the increasing number of service marketplaces online, service trading on the Web remains highly restricted. Services are at best traded within closed silos that offer mainly manual search and comparison capabilities through a Web storefront. Thus, it is seldom possible to automate the customisation, bundling, and trading of services, which would foster a more efficient and effective service sector. In this paper we present Linked USDL, a comprehensive vocabulary for capturing and sharing rich service descriptions, which aims to support the trading of services over the Web in an open, scalable, and highly automated manner. The vocabulary adopts and exploits Linked Data as a means to efficiently support communication over the Web, to promote and simplify its adoption by reusing vocabularies and datasets, and to enable the opportunistic engagement of multiple cross-domain providers.}, added-at = {2014-08-12T18:28:12.000+0200}, author = {Pedrinaci, Carlos and Cardoso, Jorge and Leidig, Torsten}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29fcc53aecaedede0c8ca82762ad19c0a/porta}, booktitle = {The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges}, description = {Linked USDL: A Vocabulary for Web-Scale Service Trading - Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_6}, editor = {Presutti, Valentina and d’Amato, Claudia and Gandon, Fabien and d’Aquin, Mathieu and Staab, Steffen and Tordai, Anna}, interhash = {8fc3fc9c0301a76377f81d604638eabd}, intrahash = {9fcc53aecaedede0c8ca82762ad19c0a}, isbn = {978-3-319-07442-9}, keywords = {description linked service usdl}, language = {English}, pages = {68-82}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, timestamp = {2014-08-12T18:28:12.000+0200}, title = {Linked USDL: A Vocabulary for Web-Scale Service Trading}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_6}, volume = 8465, year = 2014 }