Authors : O.O. Ekabua , E.E. Williams , I. Eteng and R.C. Okoro
Abstract: Web-based learning offers huge opportunities for learning and access to a vast amount of knowledge and information. Therefore, semantic web provides infrastructure enabling the semantic interoperability and dependability of web services. Web-based learning is one of the tool with which education is now being delivered. Semantic Web Services, which are services that are self-described and amendable to automated discovery, composition and invocation, will form the next generation of the Web. These services can be represented using ontology and rendered for use by end consumers. An increasing number of organizations are turning to Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) to consolidate and re-purpose their applications. This can also be extended to include web-based learning applications. As the web service infrastructure matures and first-generation SOAs move to the mainstream, a new revolution in service-orientation is emerging. Web service providers are interconnecting their offerings in unforeseen ways, giving rise to ‘Web Service Ecosystems’-a logical collection of web services whose exposure and access are subject to constraints characteristics of business service delivery. Web service ecosystems make explicit the notion of service procurement, separating it from that of conventional service supply. This study therefore, discusses the vision for web service ecosystems presents a framework design to support its application in the area of web-based learning.
O.O. Ekabua , E.E. Williams , I. Eteng and R.C. Okoro , 2008. Exploiting Web Based Ecosystems for Use in Web Based Learning. Journal of Mobile Communication, 2: 46-51.