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What's WoT?

At the recent W3C Workshop on the Web of Things in Berlin (workshop report blog post coming soon!), one of the obvious and non-trivial questions of course was: what, exactly, is the Web of Things? And how does it relate... Read more →

Two Sides of Data Science

Data Science is a subject that is mentioned a lot, and many people are saying that they're doing it. but the term often seems to take on different meanings, and depending on who's referring to it, it may mean surprisingly... Read more →

Getting Link Information: Design Time, Runtime, and on Demand

on the web, links use URIs as identifiers, and while in theory each REST service should provide a single URI as an entry point, in practice, the exact concept of an entry point is hard to nail down. that's because... Read more →

Future-Proofing REST Clients

one of the important value propositions of REST is loose coupling, which is a notoriously fuzzy terms that means different things to different people, even though one can a least try to look at it in a slightly discplined way.... Read more →

AtomPatch, or: Composing Media Types

media types are one of the foundations of web architecture: media types allow clients to understand the rules of engagement, so that interpretation of state, as well as subsequent interactions, can be driven by that shared understanding. ideally, new services... Read more →

Generalized HTTP Content Negotiation

i don't like fahrenheit. it's nothing personal, but they are hard to get used to, as much as (i guess) celsius are hard to adjust to for fahrenheit-centric people. this means that in many cases, it would be great to... Read more →

On Profiles

now that The profile Link Relation Type has been published as RFC 6906 (and is properly registered in IANA's link relation registry), this is a good moment to explain what profiles can be used for, how they should be used... Read more →

Open Spatial Services

is location a web concept (yet)? not really so far, even though of course there are many location-based services (LBS) out there. but many are trapped in specific services such as google maps or foursquare, often for business reasons, sometimes... Read more →

Identity and REST in the Cloud

one of the interesting and essential things about REST is that while identity and interaction are based on the same concept (the URI), they are not the same (this is what hypermedia is all about). you can have identity and... Read more →

International Conference on Web Engineering 2013 Industry Track: Call for Papers

International Conference on Web Engineering 2013 (ICWE2013) Industry Track The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) aims to promote scientific and practical excellence in Web Engineering and to bring together researchers and practitioners working on all aspects regarding the engineering... Read more →