Re: article: “A Web API ecosystem through feature-based reuse”

2016-09-23 10:11 GMT+02:00 Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>:

> In the article “A Web API ecosystem through feature-based reuse”
> (available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.07108v1.pdf),
> we argue that Web APIs must stop reinventing the wheel.

While I haven’t read your article yet, Ruben, I’d like to address a
general problem in the (probably academic) community surrounding RDF,
the semantic web, machine learning, etc. in that way too much highly
valuable information is published as non-semantic, binary PDF files.

This makes the information much harder to find and access, ironically
helping the problem of reinvention, since existing methods, patterns
and technology in this space is hard to find.

I’m sorry if this feels like a stab at you, Ruben, because that is not
my intention. I just think that this is a general problem that is
particularly prevalent in this technological field and I would like to
see that it can be reduced.

In a similar vein, we have RFC’s, published in barely
hypertext-enabled plain text, which also makes its content
non-semantic, harder to read, harder to find and less accessible. IETF
is addressing this through an RFP, though, so I can only hope this
problem is going away in the future. But the PDF problem is seemingly
unaddressed.

That being said, I’m looking forward to reading the article and will
post my thoughts here as soon as I have.

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