Check out Jeni Tennison's work on the rest API generator they use for the UK 
government data. 

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On Apr 16, 2013, at 18:52, Luca Matteis <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have recently created Restpark: http://lmatteis.github.io/restpark/
> 
> It's my way of pushing a standard RESTful interface for accessing RDF data. 
> Still in its very infancy but hopefully it can be something to consider. I 
> personally think the Semantic Web community desperately needs a simpler 
> protocol for querying RDF, along side SPARQL. I have nothing against SPARQL, 
> it's an important standard to have. But something simpler and RESTful needs 
> to be part of the Semantic Web stack.
> 
> The entire web community is used to consuming APIs as simple HTTP requests 
> (REST). Would you imagine GitHub, Flickr, or any other web-service API 
> actually exposing SQL instead of their RESTful API? It would make things a 
> bit more complicated for third-parties in my opinion, but more importantly it 
> would make things so much more complicated for services to implement.
> 
> I would love to think what the community thinks about this. 
> 
> Best,
> Luca

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