Enhancing ebXML Registries to Make them OWL Aware

  • Authors:

  • Asuman Dogac;Yildiray Kabak;Gokce B. Laleci;Carl Mattocks;Farrukh Najmi;Jeff Pollock

  • Affiliations:

  • Software Research and Development Center, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkiye 06531;Software Research and Development Center, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkiye 06531;Software Research and Development Center, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkiye 06531;CHECKMi, USA 07922;Sun Microsystems, Inc., Burlington, USA 01810;Cerebra, Inc., Carlsload, USA 92008

  • Venue:
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

ebXML is a standard from OASIS and UN/CEFACT which specifies an infrastructure to facilitate electronic business. In this paper, we address how ebXML registry semantics support can be further enhanced to make it OWL aware. OWL constructs are represented through ebXML registry information model constructs, and stored procedures are defined in the ebXML registry for processing the OWL semantics. These predefined stored queries provide the necessary means to exploit the enhanced semantics stored in the registry. In this way, an application program does not have to be aware of the details of how this semantics support is achieved in ebXML registry, and does not have to contain additional code to process this semantics.We believe that this approach is quite powerful to associate semantics with registry objects: it becomes possible to retrieve knowledge through queries, the enhancements to the registry are generic and also the registry specification is kept intact. The capabilities provided move the semantics support beyond what is currently available in ebXML registries and it does so by using a standard ontology language.To be able to demonstrate the benefits of the enhancements, we also show how the resulting semantics can be made use of in Web service discovery and composition.