Semweb Gang talks about Glue
December 18th, 2008Interesting conversation this month. (This is the stuff I listen to on my commute.) I was particularly intrigued by the 10 or so minutes spent discussing the need for a method of embedding identifiers and the location of a web service into HTML. Send the identifier to the service and get back the metadata. This is the exact use case of unAPI.
I was all set to get to work and give them a brrring! on the cluephone, a.k.a., comment on the post. But before I got around to it Ed Summers pointed out on irc that you can achieve the same thing using just <link> elements and/or HTTP Link: headers. In other words, why separate the identifiers from the service URI.
I like how simple unAPI is to implement. Since your metadata service’s base url doesn’t change you don’t have to worry about coordinating attributes of elements that need to appear in both your <head> and page <body>. This is a non-issue for lots of folks, but I bet it’s not so simple if your using WordPress or Drupal for your CMS.
As for the Glue extension thingie, I’ll try it out before passing judgement. But it did strike me funny that they’re not using RDF for anything. Also, and maybe I’m imagining it, but in the 10-minute wrapup at the end of the podcast I think Tom Heath basically takes a some veiled jabs at the Glue guys for being SemWeb poseurs.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
The thing with <link> header is that you don’t have to coordinate identifiers much at all. For example Freebase’s page for the Green Monster has this chunk of HTML in the head:
There’s just a link to an alternate version of the resource, in this case some RDF which describes the Green Monster in a similar way to how the HTML describes the Green Monster. Your browser can see the relationship right there explicitly in HTML. You don’t have to coordinate some sort of identifier in a piece of content, and then make sure it’s available in some datastore via some cooked up API that nobody really knows much about. It’s just the processing rules for the HTML media type.
Roy Fielding’s recent blog post about REST APIs Must be Hypertext Driven has a bunch of points in it that seem relevant for unAPI, in particular:
Dare Obasando’s provides a helpful gloss on this advice:
Sounds familiar right?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
U posted some HTML but my blarg ated it. I'm guessing it was this:
<link type=”application/rss+xml” rel=”alternate” href=”/feed/discuss/topic/en/green_monster” title=”Discussion about Green Monster” />
<link type=”application/rss+xml” rel=”alternate” href=”/feed/history/topic/en/green_monster” title=”History of Green Monster” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/turtle” href=”http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en.green_monster”>
December 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
To clarify my (misguided) point, my thinking was that, for example, you have a page that displays a single blog post. It's very easy in a CMS like drupal to tweak your output template/view to include, say, a <abbr> tag that indicates the id of the post. Easier, perhaps, than inserting a post-specific <link> element in your <head>. But I'm not sure why I got that notion, because it can't be much more complicated to include a post-specific <link> than it is to have a post-specific <title>.
So, yeah. I don't know why I was on about there.
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