Towards an ontology of HTTP interactions

Mathieu Lirzin (1) , Béatrice Markhoff (1)

1 BDTLN - Bases de données et traitement des langues naturelles

Enterprise information systems have adopted Web-based foundations for exchanges between heterogeneous programmes. These programs provide and consume via Web APIs some resources identified by URIs, whose representations are transmitted via HTTP. Furthermore HTTP remains at the heart of all Web developments (Semantic Web, linked data, IoT...). Thus, situations where a program must be able to reason about HTTP interactions (request-response) are multiplying. This requires an explicit formal specification of a shared conceptualization of those interactions. A proposal for an RDF vocabulary exists, developed with a view to carrying out web application conformity tests and record the tests outputs. This vocabulary has already been reused. In this paper we propose to adapt and extend it for making it more reusable.

Mots clés: HTTP interaction; Description Logic; Ontology; RDF; OWL; SPARQL; Competency Questions

Domaines: Web; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Mathieu Lirzin, Béatrice Markhoff. Towards an ontology of HTTP interactions. [Research Report] Université de Tours - LIFAT. 2020. ⟨hal-02901879⟩