Hydra Community Group Launched

With your support, the Hydra Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/hydra/

To join:
 http://www.w3.org/community/hydra/join

This group was originally proposed on 2013-06-16
by Markus Lanthaler. The following people supported its
creation: 
      Markus Lanthaler
      Ruben Verborgh
      Mike Amundsen
      Ioseb Dzmanashvili
      Icaro Medeiros
  
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Creating truly RESTful Web APIs is still more an art than a science.
Developers have to struggle with a number of complex design decisions
because concrete guidelines and processes are missing. Consequently,
often it is decided to implement the simplest solution which is, most of
the time, to rely on out-of-band contracts between the client and the
server. Instead of properly modeling the application domain, all the
effort is put in the design of proprietary JSON structures and URLs.
This then forms the base for the contract which is communicated in
natural-language (with all its ambiguity) to client developers.


Hydra is an attempt to make such contracts machine-readable by defining
a small vocabulary that can be used to describe Web APIs. In combination
with JSON-LD, an upcoming W3C standard, it is possible create
self-descriptive, hypermedia-driven Web APIs which fully leverage Linked
Data’s expressivity with REST’s benefits in terms of loose coupling,
evolvability, and scalability. More information about Hydra and a simple
demo can be found at http://purl.org/hydra/


The goal of this group is to advance the development of Hydra (which
includes changing things) and to build rich tooling supporting the
creation of Web APIs using Hydra and clients accessing them.
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team

Received on Monday, 17 June 2013 14:30:48 UTC