And if the data serialization is JSON, why not use JSON-LD which is
all the rage these days? http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Conal Tuohy <conal.tu...@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 <jeroended...@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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