Exchanging Links with LINK and UNLINK

Hi,

The "HTTP Link and Unlink Methods" RFC [1] specifies how to use the
LINK/UNLINK HTTP methods to support exchanging links between resources
on the web.

To explore these ideas I've created a Ruby implementation based on
Rack middleware.
This means that it can be easily integrated into any ruby based web
framework [2].

There are a couple of link stores provides, including one based on a SPARQL 1.1
compliant endpoint.

Supplemented with suitable authentication I think this provides an
interesting way to
exchange links between Linked Data publishers. No special mechanism is
needed, just
existing protocols. Its nicely aligned with existing web infrastructure.

I thought I'd share this with the community as I don't feel we've
settled on a common
pattern for exchanging this kind of information between publishers.

Cheers,

L.

[1]. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-link-method-08
[2]. https://github.com/ldodds/link-middleware

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Received on Wednesday, 11 December 2013 12:14:57 UTC