--- _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' ...