Re: Why the collection?

Hello Tomasz.

I must have missed your emails, sorry about that.

any kind of collection (or partial view) could be modeled with simple
> building blocks like Operations and Links


I completely agree. I think Hydra should provide a way to describe HTTP
APIs without trying to dictate the semantics of their data structures. To
me, it feels as if this is either already possible or close enough.

Coming up with a standard approach to ld-collections feels like an
orthogonal concern.




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Jacopo Scazzosi
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Tomasz Pluskiewicz <tomasz@t-code.pl> wrote:

> Hi Jacopo
>
> These is exactly what I have been trying to say some time last month. I
> think that we are going into specific design of a collection. My point was
> similar, that any kind of collection (or partial view) could be modeled
> with simple building blocks like Operations and Links. Any specialized
> terms sometimes seem a little out of place in a general-purpose hypermedia
> vocabulary I think Hydra is.
>
> On the other hand non-linked hypermedia approaches all sport some notion
> of a collection, though I would very much draw any conclusion from that
> simple fact.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
> On 2015-03-06 12:32, Jacopo Scazzosi wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
>