Re: What can we agree on? (ISSUE-42)

I agree.


Am 23. Februar 2015 22:50:42 schrieb "Markus Lanthaler" 
<markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>:

> I think we are starting to go in circles regarding ISSUE-42. Would everyone
> agree with the following statements? Is there anything I forgot?
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> In Web APIs, we often need to return a lot of related data, e.g., persons
> someone knows
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> Sometimes it is too much data to be returned in a single response
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> Therefore, we would like to split this data and return it in multiple
> responses instead
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> Nevertheless, the client needs to be able understand, that all these
> responses are actually just partial views of a big "collection" (the persons
> someone knows)
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> Due to the way some vocabularies are defined, we can't link directly to such
> "helper resources" as that would be misinterpreted by clients (a client
> would misinterpret a helper resource to be a person if it would be linked to
> via foaf:knows e.g.)
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> We want the relationships to be explicitly expressed so that we don't have
> to rely on a reasoner
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> If JSON-LD is used as the serialization format, the documents should look as
> idiomatic as possible. I.e., they should closely resemble current Web APIs.
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> --
> Markus Lanthaler
> @markuslanthaler
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