Full Semantic Web

Today I’m happy to announce that the full version of my masters thesis on RESTful Semantic Web Services (RSWS) has become officially available at the University of São Paulo (USP). Interested readers are welcome to follow this link, and then download the file. Old-school researchers may also head to the university library and find a physical copy of the book. (more…)

Web services are key elements in the fields of software engineering and code reuse. They also play a very important role on the Semantic Web by providing data to semantic software agents, as described by Tim Berners-Lee:

The real power of the Semantic Web will be realized when people create many programs that collect Web content from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other programs. The effectiveness of such software agents will increase exponentially as more machine-readable Web content and automated services become available. The Semantic Web promotes this synergy: even agents that were not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.

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Full Semantic Web is a place in which I’ll be posting content about the next generation of the Web. I’d like other people to contribute as well. Major topics include Semantic Web Services, Web Ontologies, Web Standards, and Extensible Markup Language. Comment freely!