Enabling Discovery of Web Services on the Internet.

Holger Lausen (STI; seekda.com, Austria)

The Web is moving from a collection of static documents to a set of Web Services.
Todays major search engines provide fast and easy access to existing
Web pages, however only little attention has been paid to provide a similar easy
and scalable access to find existing publicly available Web Services.
We present an approach that considers existing practical realities and has been used
to build the seekda.com Web Service search engine. Using this approach seekda has
indexed the largest pool of Web Service known so far. The talk will give details
on how existing Web Service related data can be obtained from the Web, how it can
be analyzed to obtain semantic annotations, how availability monitoring can be used
to assure accuracy and finally ideas on how user feedback can be used to improve
the quality of the available information.