The OWL Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S) has been officially submitted to and and accepted by the W3C as a member submission. The submission is described as

This submission contains a proposal for a Web Services description language, the Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S), which builds on Semantic Web technology developed at W3C. OWL-S is an OWL-based Web service ontology, which supplies a core set of markup language constructs for describing the properties and capabilities of Web services in unambiguous, computer-interpretable form. OWL-S markup of Web services will facilitate fuller automation of Web service tasks, such as Web service discovery, execution, composition and interoperation.

The real content of the submission is included in two key documents:

• OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services
• OWL-S’ Relationship to Selected Other Technologies

and in a set of eight ontologies encoded in OWL: Service, Profile, Process, Grounding, Logical Expression Constructs, List Constructs, Profile Additional Parameters, and Actor.

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