An approach for describing heterogeneous web resources in a unified schema

Abstract

Web resources can be located and accessed through the Internet to provide information and functionalities to users. However, different types of web resources (e.g., Web Services, RESTful services and information based web pages) are represented in heterogeneous ways. It prevents the ability to discover and locate web resources with similar functionality in the service composition. In this paper, we present an approach to represent various web resources in a unified schema. Such a schema can improve the opportunity to find web resources with similar functionality, but not limiting to the same type of web resources. We develop techniques to automatically extract information from web resources. The results of the case study show that our approach can effectively describe web resources to facilitate the discovery of similar web resources among different types.