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REST and RDF Granularity

bob ducharme's recent post about Semantic web technology and humanities research and our recent WWW2009 tutorial talking about the route from SOA to REST (to be repeated in june at ICWE 2009) made me think about the fundamental tension between... Read more →

Atom's Future as a General-Purpose Format

subbu allamaraju recently raised the question of Atom as a General-Purpose Format, and showed one example (Google Code Search Data API) that looked like a not-so-great way of using Atom. in my comment on his blog, i agreed to his... Read more →

Feeds as Query Result Serializations

Many Web-based data sources and services are available as feeds, a model that provides consumers with a loosely coupled way of interacting with providers. The current feed model is limited in its capabilities, however. Though it is simple to implement... Read more →

Federal Feed Cloud

one of the great things about web architecture is that it talks about loose coupling and how to set up an environment that focuses on cooperation, rather than integration. this is an essential difference, because integration always implies to give... Read more →

Stimulus Feed #2

after finding what may have been Stimulus Feed #1, we now have found one more, so we simply called it #2 (which of course may be completely wrong). this second feed has been made available the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s... Read more →

Stimulus Feed #1

after blogging about Stimulus Feeds Done Right and some Stimulus Feed Details that would be good to see, i was of course excited to find the first stimulus feed in the wild! it is from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s... Read more →

Link Relation Registry

my recent search for how to do Atom Feed Autodiscovery only returned rather outdated material when i tried to come up with recommendations for that particular part of how to design some of the Stimulus Feeds Details. as it turns... Read more →

Stimulus Feed Details

after blogging about Stimulus Feeds Done Right, i received a couple of comments saying that the post was mostly complaining about the Initial Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act guidelines, but not really saying what to improve... Read more →

Atom Feed Autodiscovery

even though most people expect to find feeds made accessible in a browser's address bar, this method is still not used by all feed providers. and surprisingly, even though there were two attempts to standardize how this feed autodiscovery should... Read more →

Finding Stimulus Feeds

while it is interesting to think about what it would take to implement the stimulus feed architecture in a more useful way, it is also interesting to think about where to actually find these feeds once agencies start publishing them.... Read more →