Hi Chris,
Yes, I think there is some relationship to Pubby, but some differences too.
As I understand it Pubby is mostly about serving up the individual
resources REST style. The API-in-search-of-a-cool-name does support that
but a key part of it is about serving up paged, filtered lists of of
resources.
This simplified query mechanism, along with the JSON and XML formats,
gives us easy programmatic access to the data sets for non-SPARQL,
non-RDF developers.
What would you think about extending Pubby to support the proposed JSON
and simple XML formats? Could be cool.
Dave
On 25/02/2010 17:08, Chris Bizer wrote:
Hi Leigh,
sounds like an interesting alternative to Pubby
(http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/pubby/) if I understand it right.
Cheers,
Chris
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010 12:47
An: Linking Open Data
Cc: Jeni Tennison; Dave Reynolds
Betreff: Linked Data API
Hi all,
Yesterday, at the 2nd Linked Data London Meetup, Dave Reynolds, Jeni
Tennison and myself ran a workshop introducing some work we've been
doing around a "Linked Data API".
The API is intended to be a middle-ware layer that can be deployed
in-front of a SPARQL endpoint, providing the ability to create a
RESTful data access layer for accessing the RDF data contained in the
triple store. The middle-ware is configurable, and is intended to
support a range of different access patterns and output formats. "Out
of the box" the system provides delivery of the standard range of RDF
serialisations, as well as simple JSON and XML serializations for
descriptions of lists of resources. The API essentially maps
parameterized URLs to underlying SPARQL queries, mediating the content
negotiation of the results into a suitable format for the client.
The current draft specification is at:
http://purl.org/linked-data/api/spec
And there is now a mailing list available at:
http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/
We'd be interested in your feedback. Please join the list if you're
interested in discussing the API specification or collaborating on the
work and implementations.
Cheers,
L.
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Leigh Dodds
Programme Manager, Talis Platform
Talis
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http://www.talis.com
