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Resource Profiles and Types

RFC 6906 defining "The 'profile' Link Relation Type" has been published a little while ago and I discussed it briefly when it was published. It has been picked up in a variety of places, and seeing where it is being... Read more →

JSON Schema: Why and How

Prompted by a thread on the IETF's JSON WG mailing list, I find myself wondering (again) why the current JSON landscape does not have an established schema language, and what it would take to change that. There is a long-expired... Read more →

Patterns for Robust Extensibility

Extensibility is key to creating APIs that not only work initially, but that also can evolve in terms of being appropriated for different contexts, and/or evolving over time. Extensibility is not the only pattern that robust and evolvable APIs should... Read more →

Nothing Lasts Forever (and some things disappear according to a schedule)

It is generally considered to be good practice to make URIs (the identifiers of resources on the web) as stable as possible. However, there are many things on the Web that will not last forever; many of those by design.... Read more →

JSON or RDF? Just Decide

A little while ago (almost three years), Mark Nottingham wrote his excellent article JSON or XML? Just Decide, and it seems that it's time to update that a little. But it also is a good opportunity to put it in... Read more →

LocWeb 2015: Call for Papers

The 5th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2015) Held in conjunction with WWW2015, the 24th International World Wide Web Conference Florence, Italy, May 19, 2015. We are very happy to announce that LocWeb 2015 will take place... Read more →

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 →