Re: Why the collection?

Hello Thomas.

Thanks for the clarification. Isn't playing with lego exactly what we
are all doing with RDF vocabularies and ontologies, though?

In my learning process I've already encountered quite a few of them
(skos, rdf(s), hydra, foaf, xlmns, owl, schema, ...). It already feels like
"playing lego" (just as picking and assembling the right components
for an API's underlying architecture does).

Also, if the goal is to "describe Web APIs" from a practical,
what-can-you-do-with-this point of view, then wouldn't Hydra benefit
from the separation of concerns obtained by delegating the semantics of
collections to dedicated vocabs?

I'm absolutely no expert but collections seem to be so context-specific
that even you guys are experiencing some difficulties in finding a common
ground - hence my considerations.

Cheers.



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Jacopo Scazzosi
Developer
http://www.jacoscaz.com

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Hoppe <thomas.hoppe@n-fuse.de>
wrote:

>  Hi Jacopo,
>
> Markus' goal is "to keep the simple case simple".
> and I think its very inconvenient to give a developer lego pieces which he
> needs to use
> to model his own collection instead of having this ubiquitous concept
> available in the vocab.
> That's what developers know and except from a vocab whose goal it is to
> describe Web APIs.
>
> Greets, Thomas
>
>
> On 03/06/2015 11:56 AM, Jacopo Scazzosi wrote:
>
> Hello everyone.
>
>  Between hydra:Link and hydra:supportedOperations, Hydra seems to have a
> lot of descriptive power.
>
>  Wouldn't it be better to let developers pick whatever implementations of
> the "collection" concept they like and just provide them with the necessary
> tools to describe how a client should interact with them?
>
>  For however complex or simple the representations provided by such an
> implementation might be, Hydra seems to be already capable of describing
> what to do with it. A <METHOD> expecting X and returning Y is always the
> same.
>
>  I guess my question is: why the focus on "collections"? What am I
> missing?
>
>
>
>     --
>
>  Jacopo Scazzosi
>  Developer
> http://www.jacoscaz.com
>
>
>