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The members of the METEOR-S project are happy to announce the support for SAWSDL(Semantic Annotations for WSDL) SAWSDL is a simple extension of WSDL using the extensibility elements. It has two basic types of annotations, the model reference and the schema mapping. The model reference annotation, the same as the WSDL-S model reference, is used to associate interfaces/port types, operations, inputs, outputs, and xml schema elements and attributes with Semantic Concepts. Model reference annotations are used by the METEOR-S framework to support the

Introduction The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) specifies a way to describe the abstract functionalities of a service and concretely how and where to invoke it. The WSDL 2.0 specification does not include semantics in the description of Web services. Therefore, two services can have similar descriptions while meaning totally different things. Resolving this ambiguity in Web services descriptions is an important step toward automating the discovery and composition of Web services — a key productivity enabler in many domains including