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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Multimedia Volume 2012, Article ID 586542, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2012/586542 Research Article Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data 1 ¨ 1, 2 Markus Lanthaler and Christian Gutl 1 Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria 2 School of Information Systems, Curtin University of Technology, Perth WA 6102, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Markus Lanthaler, markus.lanthaler@student.tugraz.at Received 4 November 2011; Accepted 15 January 2012 Academic Editor: Nabil Tabbane ¨ Copyright © 2012 M. Lanthaler and C. Gutl. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We live in an era of ever-increasing abundance of data. To cope with the information overload we suffer from every single day, more sophisticated methods are required to access, manipulate, and analyze these humongous amounts of data. By embracing the heterogeneity, which is unavoidable at such a scale, and accepting the fact that the data quality and meaning are fuzzy, more adaptable, flexible, and extensible systems can be built. RESTful services combined with Semantic Web technologies could prove to be a viable path to achieve that. Their combination allows data integration on an unprecedented scale and solves some of the problems Web developers are continuously struggling with. This paper introduces a novel approach to create machine-readable descriptions for RESTful services as