Exploiting Ontologies to Achieve Semantic Convergence Between Different CC/PP-like RDF Schemes for Representing Devices’ Capabilities: the SADiC Approach

The CC/PP and the UAProf are two related frameworks that aim at defining a general and extensible format to describe the capabilities of the user-end terminals for accessing contents and services provided by the Internet and by the Web in particular. Both CC/PP and UAProf are based on RDF and have logically equivalent architectures. However, notwithstanding their logical bindings, they appear to be parallel standards, i.e., equivalent but not compatible. This paper explains the reasons for the incompatibility between CC/PP and UAProf and presents the approach followed by the Semantic API for the Delivery Context (SADiC) in order to achieve rigorously the required semantic convergence between these frameworks – as well as, in general, between all the CC/PP-like RDF schemes – by exploiting the concepts of the Semantic Web, without influencing the standards’ bodies themselves.