Re: Atom entries for change events of resources (looking for appropriate link relation)

Edward Summers <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:24:06 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 12, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Jan Algermissen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13.01.2014, at 00:35, Erik Mogensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Jan Algermissen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [...]
>> What I am looking for is a link relation that is a good fit for linking from the entry to the changed resources. I am thinking
>> 
>> - about: <link rel="about" href="/employees/7628827272"/>
>> - via: <link rel="via" href="/employees/7628827272"/>
>> [...]
>> 
>> About stands out as a clear winner IMHO.
>> 
>> "Employee 12345"... is the subject of ..."this change event"
> 
> Yes, I like that, too. Especially vs minting one. OTH, there is the proximity to RDF/Linked Data semantics.

+1 for about. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6903 doesn’t really mention RDF/Linked Data semantics, but I think you’re correct that it came from that domain. So I think you’re safe :-)

//Ed

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