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Spacing Out: Web 3D and the Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites

The emergence of high-speed processors with 3D graphics acceleration and the accessibility of high-speed internet connections have propelled web 3D from a frustrating to a viable internet technology. Without a doubt, the addition of spatial dimension to customary 2D web graphics can be visually gripping. But greater potential for the technology lies beyond its ability to command attention. Web ...

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Thomas Edison was developing a device that could record, then replay at high speed, telegraph signals when he made the first recording of the human voice (Phonograph, 1877). Elisha Gray, who came a close second to Alexander Graham Bell for the title of inventor of the telephone, instead is known as the inventor of the first of the early electronic musical instruments (Musical Telegraph, 1875). ...

Semantic Web Services in the Web: A Preliminary Reality Check

Where are all the semantic Web services today? In this paper, we briefly provide the preliminary results of searching the surface Web and the prominent citeseer archive as one element of the deep Web for publicly available semantic Web service descriptions written in OWLS, WSML, WSDL-S or SAWSDL by means of the specialized meta-search engine Sousuo 1.4.

Web Service Composition: A Reality Check

Automated web service composition is one of the major promises of serviceoriented architecture, where services can be discovered and composed dynamically and automatically. To investigate the methods for composite web service construction, we conducted an experiment on creating useful composite web services from real existing web services where semantic annotations are not available. The empiri...