Re: Designing a Linked Data developer experience

Hi Ruben et al,
You may be interested in taking a look at Mira which is an interface development framework for REST applications that can be used with linked data – https://github.com/TecWebLab/mira. Unfortunately the documentation is still in Portuguese but running it through Google translate should work. A paper describing it can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303514856_MIRA_A_Model-Driven_Framework_for_Semantic_Interfaces_for_Web_Applications.

A Happy New Year to all!

Cheers
Daniel

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Daniel Schwabe  
Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio
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Daniel Schwabe 
Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio
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> On 28 Dec 2018, at 11:20, Ruben Verborgh (UGent-imec) <Ruben.Verborgh@ugent.be> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> The thread on easier RDF on this mailing list was/is probably the discussion of the year.
> 
> Another perspective on this topic is “how can we make Linked Data easy for non-RDF people?”
> Or perhaps: “do developers need to know RDF to build Linked Data applications?”
> 
> While Semantic Web technologies have been successful in several specialized areas,
> we still don’t have end-user applications that directly use Linked Data from the Web.
> We’ve often referred to it as our chicken-and-egg problem,
> and even though there’s a lot of data online, we’re not seeing a lot of consumer apps.
> 
> In my latest blog post [1], I am arguing that we haven’t sufficiently focused
> on front-end developers, who are the ones building apps for end users.
> Such front-end developers are very hesitant to start working with RDF or even “easy RDF”.
> Rather, they want integration with existing languages, frameworks, and tools they are using.
> And whether we like it or not, those include JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and the likes.
> 
> This led me to the question of whether we can design a developer experience for Linked Data
> without needing to expose RDF and its complexities, with a couple of concrete suggestions
> and lessons learned.
> 
> Your feedback is most welcome.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ruben
> 
> [1] https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2018/12/28/designing-a-linked-data-developer-experience/