On 2/9/09 9:45 AM, Yves Raimond wrote:
That's exactly the approach we took inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes and onhttp://ww.bbc.co.uk/music/beta. We publish linked data by "just" writing a new view in a Ruby-on-Rails-like framework. The cost of doing that is really, really extremely low if your web application is well designed (well designed = one URI per thing). I think most web developers getting the "the website is the API" slogan know exactly
Yves,
"the web site is the API" is a fine slogan for a developer audience. But what about none developers? For instance, Data Architects, Data Integrators etc.. People who don't necessarily see code as the vehicle for maintainable and long term data integration i.e. people that see Web sites as Data Spaces loosley coupled to the World Wide Web.
Links: 1. http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/claremont/halevy.ppt -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
