With the Semantic Web Initiative, the Internet more and more becomes an Internet which contains ontologies for different domains. Such ontologies were mainly generated to be machine interpretable. Nevertheless, in a digital Society also the human reader must have the possibility to decide if an ontology is usable for his purpose. This paper will present an approach which allows getting a quick overview of the focus of an ontology. In order to fulfill this, the paper describes how to generate a controlled natural language summary of the ontology for the human reader.

For the presentation of Web services different kinds of readers must be considered. They have different intentions for reading a Web service. Natural language and UML seem to be adequate representation; however they have also their disadvantages. Therefore glossaries as an additional representation concept are introduced. It will be discussed to which degree glossaries can be a uniform representation format for different kinds of readers and the different information which can be derived from a Web service description.

Business process modeling is an important part of each software development project. No software is developed without specifying it's use within the context of business processes. Since business process modeling is an important task during requirements engineering, in our opinion the same basic modeling notions should be used. This paper gives a first proposal how this can be done.