Exploratory search of web data services

Building web applications, which integrate information available over the web, increasingly requires frameworks to support the discovery of data services, enabling access to web data sources. Web data services might be discovered according to different criteria, such as their descriptions, their co-usage in similar applications, other developers who used the data services in their own development experiences. Recent approaches in literature convey on data service selection based on multiple criteria. In this paper, we take a distinguishing viewpoint, by proposing an exploratory search method, that enables web applications developers to iteratively discover services of interest and progressively improve their knowledge on available web data services.