---
_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. 2017 IEEE International
Conference on Web Services (ICWS). IEEE; 2017. doi:10.1109/icws.2017.80'
apa: Wolters, D., Heindorf, S., Kirchhoff, J., & Engels, G. (2017). Linking
Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data. In I. Altintas & S. Chen
(Eds.), 2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS). IEEE.
https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Wolters_Heindorf_Kirchhoff_Engels_2017, title={Linking Services
to Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data}, DOI={10.1109/icws.2017.80},
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 2017 IEEE International
Conference on Web Services (ICWS), edited by Ilkay Altintas and Shiping Chen.
IEEE, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/icws.2017.80.
ieee: 'D. Wolters, S. Heindorf, J. Kirchhoff, and G. Engels, “Linking Services to
Websites by Leveraging Semantic Data,” in 2017 IEEE International Conference
on Web Services (ICWS), 2017, doi: 10.1109/icws.2017.80.'
mla: Wolters, Dennis, et al. “Linking Services to Websites by Leveraging Semantic
Data.” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), edited
by Ilkay Altintas and Shiping Chen, IEEE, 2017, doi:10.1109/icws.2017.80.
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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