- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 23:29:50 +0100
- To: <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Hi, Clarification here: these blog posts are against the style of APIs in general and not the Europeana API in particular. Arguing against them is arguing against the best practices this WG has defined. I'm not taking part here, but want to make some things clear. Antoine On 28/10/16 13:26, Pieter Colpaert wrote: > Dear Bernadette, > > Quickly wanted to point out that at our university's knowledge on web-scale research lab, we commonly use the Europeana API as an example of how not to publish data on the Web. The reasoning behind this is reflected in these 2 blog posts: > > * https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/ > > * http://blog.pieter.pm/2016/04/i-do-not-want-your-open-data-api-id-rather-scrape-your-website/ > > Kind regards, > > Pieter Colpaert > > > On 27-10-16 20:19, Bernadette Farias Lóscio wrote: >> Hi Antoine, >> >> I hope everything is fine with you! We are still collecting evidences for the DWBP and I was considering to include the Europeana API as an evidence. >> >> I was taking a look on the Europeana Labs site and I made a first report about the API [1]. It would be great if you could take a look! Please, let me know if you agree with the evaluation and feel free to complement or to make changes. >> >> Feel free also to include other evidences. >> >> Thanks a lot! >> Bernadette >> >> [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mRVp8Vdudepk68AjQbhNoZnLU-0-vH_4fVug_J-hCxo/edit?usp=sharing >> [2] http://labs.europeana.eu/ >> >> -- >> Bernadette Farias Lóscio >> Centro de Informática >> Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > +32486747122 >
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