- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:39:31 +0200
- To: <public-hydra@w3.org>
On 26 Jun 2014 at 14:19, Jindřich Mynarz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Markus Lanthaler wrote: >> It surprises me that the notion of an entry point is that confusing for you. Just think of it > this way: Someone sends you a link to a Hydra ApiDocumentation. Now you know what > concepts are used in the API etc. But you don't know how to get started, i.e., how to enter > the API. hydra:entrypoint tells you just that. It tells you for example, go and start at > http://api.example.com/ and proceed from there. > > No, the relation of hydra:ApiDocumentation to an entry point is > perfectly clear to me. > > What I believe is not that clear is what an entry point typically > offers (what's in its representation). So far, we've only discussed > that it may offer hydra:Links to hydra:Collections. What else? What > kinds of operations would be common to have on entry point? I believe > that hints of this kind would help to clarify how the concept of entry > point should be used. That's impossible to answer as it depends entirely on the API at hand, i.e., we can't generalize it I think. -- Markus Lanthaler @markuslanthaler
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