Web Services: an usage scenario
- This usage scenario asumes that all the services are using common
concepts (e.g. flight, economy class, room, etc)
- For the travel agent service to understand the airline services and to be
able to send meaningful information to them, a travel industry ontology needs
to exist and be used by the Web services taking part in this scenario
- An ontology is a formal description of a set of concepts and their relationships
to each other
- By associating a name with each concept, an ontology defines a
standard vocabulary that can be used to communicate those concepts
