And if the data serialization is JSON, why not use
JSON-LD which is
all the rage these days?
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Conal Tuohy <conal.tuohy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jeroen
Yes I had expected to see links almost everywhere, given the nature of the
underlying dataset. For instance I looked at the representation of New
Zealand, and found a screed of data including the name of the Prime
Minister, the name of the Capital City, the name of the Highest Peak, and so
on, but with no links to any of those things.
At least the names of those things are meaningful data in themselves, but
many of the other names are not at all useful, e.g.
"coat of arms": {
"value": "Coat of arms of New Zealand",
"type": "string"
}
"history of topic": {
"value": "history of New Zealand",
"type": "string"
}
On 2 December 2015 at 10:18, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Conal,
I was interested to take a look at your API but I
was surprised to see
it described as REST. It doesn't look like hypertext to me. In a REST API,
related resources should be represented using hyperlinks.
There are hyperlinks in
various places. For instance at [0], the items are
linked, and pagination can be done via link headers in the response. Are
these the type of hyperlinks you are looking for? In addition, are there
links that you'd expect at other locations and that are not there yet? Note
that a lot of stuff might not be there yet simply due to the very
preliminary state of the API, for instance [1].
[0]
http://queryr.wmflabs.org/api/items
[1]
https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/QueryrAPI/issues/13
Cheers
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