A semantic annotation for MaaS services: the SA4MaaS approach
Résumé
In a previous work, we have defined a full service approach to compose MaaS services
for multimedia data researching. This approach is based on a four-phase process: description,
filtering, clustering and restitution. In this work, we are especially interested in the description
phase of multimedia web services. Several approaches have been defined with the aim to
semantically describe web services. We propose a new approach, Semantic Annotation for MaaS
(SA4MaaS) services, as an extension of the W3C recommendation on semantics for web services
(SAWSDL). We use two ontologies: a Domain Ontology, whose concepts define semantics of
the business domain, and a Multimedia Ontology, whose concepts define a set of annotation
properties for describing multimedia content. We show via our implementation how to
automatically generate SAWSDL files from SA4MaaS annotations. An evaluation in a medical
domain is allowed to validate the approach.