- From: Scott Wilson <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:04:01 +0100
- To: public-webappstore@w3.org
Hi everyone, A quick update on something I've been working on recently, which is syndication of data between several app stores. The basic idea is that different app stores aimed at different markets will offer many of the same web apps; in this case it can be useful to pool data about them such as user reviews, ratings, and general statistics such as views/likes/embeds etc. I've been using some JSON structures based on ActivityStreams for this [1] and built a library [2] that leverages the LRNode infrastructure (based on CouchDB) to handle synchronisation. So far I've been synching data between the ITEC alpha store site and an Edukapp instance [3] , and will soon add two more stores assuming they get the go-ahead. I also recently met up with Harmen from Widgr.com who is also interested in this model. On a related note, SURFNet are adding Atom-based syndication of app metadata to Edukapp; this is another form of potential cross-store interoperability. Both of these may be useful UCs for web apps to look at. -S [1] https://github.com/scottbw/spaws/tree/master/doc/recipes [2] https://github.com/scottbw/spaws [3] http://code.google.com/p/edukapp/
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