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		<title>QuASAR SW services validator</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Khalid Belhajjame on the public-semweb-lifesci list: the QuASAR project have shipped a validator tool for semantic web-service descriptions. An LGPL&#8217;d beta-version can be downloaded from the site.
 	   The tool allows users to inspect for errors the semantic annotations 	   of web services of their choice using two adequacy criteria.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <span id="from">Khalid Belhajjame on </span>the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/">public-semweb-lifesci</a> list: the <a href="http://img.cs.man.ac.uk/quasar/index.php">QuASAR project</a> have <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/2008Apr/0061.html">shipped</a> a validator tool for semantic web-service descriptions. An LGPL&#8217;d beta-version can be <a href="http://img.cs.man.ac.uk/quasar/download_verification_tool.php">downloaded</a> from the site.</p>
<blockquote><p> 	   The tool allows users to inspect for errors the semantic annotations 	   of web services of their choice using two adequacy criteria.</p></blockquote>
<p>I was wondering why this was announced to the SemWeb lifesciences group, but the homepage has an explanation:</p>
<blockquote><p>Semantic annotations have been proposed as a means of providing richer         information about the behaviour of Web services to potential users.         Ontologies of terms used in a particular application domain, or by a         particular community, can be associated with Web service components (e.g.         as task descriptions for specific operations, or as richer typing information         for specific input or output messages).  Users familiar with that ontology         can then use the annotations to search for suitable service implementations,         or to determine whether the outputs of one service are suitable for use         as inputs to another.  For example, in the biological domain, a user might         wish to convert a protein sequence into its equivalent gene sequence, and          might therefore ask a service discovery engine for information on services         which take protein sequences as input and return gene sequences as output.</p></blockquote>
<p>See their site for more details and <a href="http://img.cs.man.ac.uk/quasar/publications.php">publications</a>. The related <a href="http://www.ispider.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ispider.pl">ISPIDER</a> project has more <a href="http://www.ispider.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ispider.pl?content=publications">publications</a> in this area.</p>
<p>Nearby in the Web:<a href="http://videolectures.net/iswc06_belhajjame_aawsb/"> online video</a> of an ISWC 2006 talk on related work.</p>
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