Re: Banging the identity drum again, this time REST-style
Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]>
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Andrew, Sorry, its Monday morning so I a bit slow. ;-) What "tastes" do you want to put together? And how? Anything that gets more visibility (aside from a Hindenburg type incident) has to be a good thing! Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 16:01 +0000, Andrew S. Townley wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just saw a reference to this article through another list[1]. I think it's a pretty good description of RESTful services, but what really got me was the "Level 3: Hypermedia Controls" stuff and the way it's done with Atom via link rel references. In my own work in this area, I've been trying to find ways to leverage PSIs for this purpose, <snark>and thankfully, IANA has set up a handy directory to catalog all of these[2] so nobody will every be confused about what they mean.</snark> ;) > > While I like Atom, I've mostly ignored RFC 4287 during its development for various reasons. However, I think, in the era of trying to grow a more interoperable and, dare I say, "meaningful" interweb, it might be useful to think about how we can frame discussions around things like Hypermedia Controls in terms of the benefits of more than just the IANA link registry through applying PSIs. > > The main reason I mention this is that there are a large number of well-intended practitioners out there who are genuinely interested in "doing the right thing", but they probably haven't heard of topic maps, and I bet they've heard of RDF. Getting this kind of coverage in a Fowler/ThoughtWorks publication, will increase interest in this area, and you can expect to see an explosion of ad-hoc link relations and arguments resulting from semantic ambiguity of that explosion. At some point, someone's gonna want to start gluing them together somehow. > > I just think it might be useful to come up with some widely visible cases that highlight the advantages of how you can put "two great tastes together" and get something really interesting. Occasionally, it all comes down to timing... ;) > > Have a good week. > > ast > > [1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html > [2] http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml > -- > Andrew S. Townley <[email protected]> > http://atownley.org > _______________________________________________ > topicmapmail mailing list > topicmapmail-Zo64W7twoUFWk0Htik3J/[email protected] > http://www.infoloom.com/mailman/listinfo/topicmapmail