Swagger JSON Docs & Linked Data

On 6/30/17 12:17 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 6/29/17 7:03 AM, Gray, Alasdair J G wrote:
>> Hi Martynas
>>
>> The Linked Data Templates look like a really interesting way of
>> getting a read/write data web. However, I’m unclear whether you
>> support data returned in non-RDF serialisations, e.g. CSV, or JSON.
>>
>> In the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform [1] we used the Linked Data API
>> to provide an abstraction for our web (HTML/CSS/JSON) app developers
>> so that they did not need to be proficient in Semantic Web
>> technologies (RDF, OWL). This greatly improved the efficiency of the
>> development of our project as it meant our app developers could focus
>> on what they were good at and the semantic web technology was
>> exploited but hidden [2].
>>
>> I have more recently be using the Linked Data API approach in
>> different projects where we are starting to see a need for being able
>> to write data, not just read it.
>>
>> It would be a huge limitation of the Linked Data Templates if they
>> did not support serialising to CSV, JSON, etc.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Alasdair
>>
>> [1] https://dev.openphacts.org/
>> [2] http://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw088
>
> Hi Alasdair,
>
> Have you considered using OpenAPI (nee Swagger) to document your APIs?
> Doing that would provide another point of intersection between "Web
> Developers" and "Semantic Web Developers" .
>
>
> [1]
> https://medium.com/openlink-software-blog/swagger-the-api-economy-rest-linked-data-and-a-semantic-web-9d6839dae65a
> -- Swagger, the API Economy, REST, Linked Data, and a Semantic Web
>
> Kingsley


Alasdair,

I've located the JSON-based Swagger doc I inquired about. Once again,
this brings discovery to the fore i.e., adopting any combination of the
following to aid structured data discovery:

1. <link/> in <head> via @rel -- xhv:alternate or xhv:related relations
where Swagger Doc URI identifies relation object

2. <script/> -- to embed metadata as structured data islands in HTML

3. Link: -- at the HTTP level emulating #1.

Currently, you have <https://dev.openphacts.org/docs/2.1>, and a
validation icon that anchored by the URI
<https://online.swagger.io/validator/debug?url=https://dev.openphacts.org/swagger/spec/ops_2_1.json>,
from which I can discern the Swagger Docs URI
<https://dev.openphacts.org/swagger/spec/ops_2_1.json> .

I can transform content of
<https://dev.openphacts.org/swagger/spec/ops_2_1.json> into 5-Star
Linked Data via the URI:

<http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/https://dev.openphacts.org/swagger/spec/ops_2_1.json>

I can pivot to an alternative Faceted Browsing View using
<http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttps%2Fdev.openphacts.org%2Fswagger%2Fspec%2Fops_2_1.json>


And then look at the description of a specific Action using

<http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttps%2Fdev.openphacts.org%2Fswagger%2Fspec%2Fops_2_1.json%23~%252Fcompound~get&distinct=1>

Conclusion:

We just need to enhance structured data discoverability using existing
open standards and best practices. The REST will come together naturally
because the Web has great underlying architectural design :)

-- 
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