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Massimo Paolucci, Gregor Broll, John Hamard, Enrico Rukzio, Matthias Wagner, Albrecht Schmidt
Bringing Semantic Services to Real-World Objects
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Volume 4, 2008

The last few years have seen two parallel trends emerge. The first of such trends is set by technologies such as Near Field Communication, 2D Bar codes, RFID and others that support the association of digital information with virtually every object. Using these technologies ordinary objects such as coffee mugs or advertisement posters can provide information that is easily processed. The second trend is set by (semantic) Web services that provide a way to invoke automatically functionalities across the Internet lowering interoperability barriers. The PERCI system, discussed in the paper, provides a way to bridge between these two technologies allowing the invocation of Web services using the information gathered from the tags effectively transforming every object in a service proxy.