Re: Restpark - Minimal RESTful API for querying RDF triples

Just to back up Tim - we've been using
http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/

>From Jenni Tennison et al. and have been really pleased.

Instead if writing a generic rest API for our data, it lets us provide a
tailored API for our application domain.

Thanks
Paul

Paul

On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

> Check out Jeni Tennison's work on the rest API generator they use for the
> UK government data.
>
> Sent from my portable device.
>
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 18:52, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'lmatteis@gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> I have recently created Restpark: http://lmatteis.github.io/restpark/
>
> It's my way of pushing a standard RESTful interface for accessing RDF
> data. Still in its very infancy but hopefully it can be something to
> consider. I personally think the Semantic Web community desperately needs a
> simpler protocol for querying RDF, along side SPARQL. I have nothing
> against SPARQL, it's an important standard to have. But something simpler
> and RESTful needs to be part of the Semantic Web stack.
>
> The entire web community is used to consuming APIs as simple HTTP requests
> (REST). Would you imagine GitHub, Flickr, or any other web-service API
> actually exposing SQL instead of their RESTful API? It would make things a
> bit more complicated for third-parties in my opinion, but more importantly
> it would make things so much more complicated for services to implement.
>
> I would love to think what the community thinks about this.
>
> Best,
> Luca
>
>