Just to back up Tim - we've been using http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/
>From Jenni Tennison et al. and have been really pleased. Instead if writing a generic rest API for our data, it lets us provide a tailored API for our application domain. Thanks Paul Paul On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > Check out Jeni Tennison's work on the rest API generator they use for the > UK government data. > > Sent from my portable device. > > On Apr 16, 2013, at 18:52, Luca Matteis <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', '[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 > >
