Using UDDI for publishing metadata of the semantic web

Abstract

Although UDDI does not provide support for semantic search, retrieval and storage, it is already accepted as an industrial standard and a huge number of services already store their service specifications in UDDI. Objective of this paper is to analyze possibilities and ways to use UDDI registry to allow utilization of meta-data encoded according to Semantic Web standards for semantic-based description, discovery and integration of web resources in the context of needs of two research projects: 'Adaptive Services Grid' and 'SmartResource'. We present an approach of mapping RDFS upper concepts to UDDI data model using tModel structure, which makes possible to store semantically annotated resources internally in UDDI. We consider UDDI as an enabling specification for creation of a semantic registry for not only services, but also for web resources in general.