The document discusses the differences between web services and the semantic web, emphasizing how existing web services lack rigorous semantics compared to the flexible semantics offered by the semantic web. It introduces the SADI framework, which aims to enhance web services with rich semantics to make them compatible with the semantic web's requirements, focusing on creating explicit biological relationships and enabling discovery through a novel prototyping method. The text outlines various observations and demonstrations of SADI's capabilities in integrating and querying data across distributed systems while maintaining provider control over resources.
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