Declarative Linked Data Apps Community Group Proposed

The Declarative Linked Data Apps Community Group has been proposed:

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The mission of this group is to produce a specification that describes
how Web and Linked Data applications can be built using declarative
technologies only, minimizing the need for source code.


Current software development models involve writing source code (mostly
in imperative languages) and building programs from it. Source code is
prone to bugs, and managing it requires developers. The declarative
approach is instead to push as much application logic from source code
to data, so that the application can be managed and reused as data
itself, while the software become generic and application-independent.


This approach is related to functional languages and to processing
pipelines. The generic software works as a processor: it takes the
incoming request and the declarative application description and runs it
through a pipeline, first retrieving the state of the requested resource
(or changing it) and then rendering it into the requested format, such
as a Web page. This is similar to an XSLT processor transforming XML
documents.


Graphity is a production-level platform for declarative end-user Linked
Data applications with an RDF triplestore backend. It processes
ontologies describing application structure, which seemlesly combine
multiple declarative technolgies: URI templates, SPIN SPARQL templates,
XSLT stylesheets (both server- and client-side), and RDF/POST encoding.


Please join this group if you're interested in any practical or
theoretical aspects of Linked Data, declarative technologies, or
Graphity software.

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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#declarative-apps

Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and
people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
be listed as "proposed"; it will appear in the list of current groups:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/

In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/community/account/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 14:56:04 UTC