A Practical Study on Geographic Semantic Web Services Based on OWL-S

With the development of Semantic Web technology, the Geographic service based on OWL-S is an effective way for sharing and interoperation of heterogeneous information resources in the distributed network environment. This paper focuses on how to dynamic find, bind and invoke Geographic web services by Ontology Web Language for Services (OWL-S). The development of an OWL-S based web service is time consuming and error prone. The main reason is the lack of a integrated development environment. So, we build an integrated developing environment of Geographic semantic web services by using existing tools. This IDE can assist developers to develop Geographic semantic web services. In order to realize the applications of Geographic semantic web services in OWL-S IDE, an experimental system has been developed. In the system we generate Geographic Ontology and develop, publish, bind, find and invoke web services in distributed network.