A Service Registry Meta-model Framework for Interoperability

Currently there exist many kinds of semantic Web Service models on the internet. They are heterogeneous so that it is hard to understand and interoperate each other. In this paper, we study several mainstream semantic Web Service models, and extract meta-models for each from the perspective of semantic Web Service discovery. Based on this, we propose the universal meta-model for semantic Web Service registration within the background of meta-model framework for interoperability (MFI, ISO/IEC19763). Some cases are studied and infrastructure supporting our work is demonstrated. The work in the paper may be regarded as an extension to UDDI on service semantics facet, and has been proposed to ISO as ISO/IEC 19763 Part 7.