---
_id: '5829'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Websites increasingly embed semantic data for search engine optimization.
    The most common ontology for semantic data, schema.org, is supported by all major
    search engines and describes over 500 data types, including calendar events, recipes,
    products, and TV shows. As of today, users wishing to pass this data to their
    favorite applications, e.g., their calendars, cookbooks, price comparison applications
    or even smart devices such as TV receivers, rely on cumbersome and error-prone
    workarounds such as reentering the data or a series of copy and paste operations.
    In this paper, we present Semantic Data Mediator (SDM), an approach that allows
    the easy transfer of semantic data to a multitude of services, ranging from web
    services to applications installed on different devices. SDM extracts semantic
    data from the currently displayed web page on the client-side, offers suitable
    services to the user, and by the press of a button, forwards this data to the
    desired service while doing all the necessary data conversion and service interface
    adaptation in between. To realize this, we built a reusable repository of service
    descriptions, data converters, and service adapters, which can be extended by
    the crowd. Our approach for linking services to websites relies solely on semantic
    data and does not require any additional support by either website or service
    developers. We have fully implemented our approach and present a real-world case
    study demonstrating its feasibility and usefulness.
author:
- first_name: Dennis
  full_name: Wolters, Dennis
  id: '11308'
  last_name: Wolters
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Heindorf, Stefan
  id: '11871'
  last_name: Heindorf
  orcid: 0000-0002-4525-6865
- first_name: Jonas
  full_name: Kirchhoff, Jonas
  id: '39928'
  last_name: Kirchhoff
- first_name: Gregor
  full_name: Engels, Gregor
  id: '107'
  last_name: Engels
citation:
  ama: 'Wolters D, Heindorf S, Kirchhoff J, Engels G. Linking Services to Websites
    by Leveraging Semantic Data. In: Altintas I, Chen S, eds. <i>2017 IEEE International
    Conference on Web Services (ICWS)</i>. IEEE; 2017. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80">10.1109/icws.2017.80</a>'
  apa: Wolters, D., Heindorf, S., Kirchhoff, J., &#38; Engels, G. (2017). Linking
    Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data. In I. Altintas &#38; S. Chen
    (Eds.), <i>2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)</i>. IEEE.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80">https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Wolters_Heindorf_Kirchhoff_Engels_2017, title={Linking Services
    to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80">10.1109/icws.2017.80</a>},
    booktitle={2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)}, publisher={IEEE},
    author={Wolters, Dennis and Heindorf, Stefan and Kirchhoff, Jonas and Engels,
    Gregor}, editor={Altintas, Ilkay and Chen, Shiping}, year={2017} }'
  chicago: Wolters, Dennis, Stefan Heindorf, Jonas Kirchhoff, and Gregor Engels. “Linking
    Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data.” In <i>2017 IEEE International
    Conference on Web Services (ICWS)</i>, edited by Ilkay Altintas and Shiping Chen.
    IEEE, 2017. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80">https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80</a>.
  ieee: 'D. Wolters, S. Heindorf, J. Kirchhoff, and G. Engels, “Linking Services to
    Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data,” in <i>2017 IEEE International Conference
    on Web Services (ICWS)</i>, 2017, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80">10.1109/icws.2017.80</a>.'
  mla: Wolters, Dennis, et al. “Linking Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic
    Data.” <i>2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)</i>, edited
    by Ilkay Altintas and Shiping Chen, IEEE, 2017, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80">10.1109/icws.2017.80</a>.
  short: 'D. Wolters, S. Heindorf, J. Kirchhoff, G. Engels, in: I. Altintas, S. Chen
    (Eds.), 2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), IEEE, 2017.'
date_created: 2018-11-26T11:49:31Z
date_updated: 2022-10-15T20:01:55Z
department:
- _id: '66'
doi: 10.1109/icws.2017.80
editor:
- first_name: Ilkay
  full_name: Altintas, Ilkay
  last_name: Altintas
- first_name: Shiping
  full_name: Chen, Shiping
  last_name: Chen
keyword:
- Services
- Websites
- Semantic Data
- schema.org
- Data Conversion
- Interface Adaptation
- Mediation
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/informatik/fg/dbis/Publikationen/2017/wolters2017_ICWS.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781538607527'
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
status: public
title: Linking Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data
type: conference
user_id: '11871'
year: '2017'
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