Ruben Verborgh

Bottom-up Web APIs with self-descriptive responses

Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle

Published in 2015 in Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop.

The success or failure of Semantic Web services is non-measurable: many different formats exist, none of them standardized, and few to no services actually use them. Instead of trying to retrofit Web APIs to our models, building APIs in a different way makes them usable by generic clients. This paper argues why we should create Web APIs out of reusable building blocks whose functionality is self-descriptive through hypermedia controls. The non-functional aspects of such APIs can be measured on the server and client side, bringing us to a more scientific vision of agents on the Web.

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@inproceedings{verborgh_kss_2015,
  author = {Verborgh, Ruben and Mannens, Erik and Van de Walle, Rik},
  title = {Bottom-up Web {APIs} with self-descriptive responses},
  year = 2015,
  month = feb,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop},
  series = {KIT Scientific Reports},
  volume = 7692,
  pages = {143--148},
}

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Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle. 2015. Bottom-up Web APIs with self-descriptive responses. In Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop (KIT Scientific Reports), 143–148.
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Verborgh, R., Mannens, E., & Van de Walle, R. (2015). Bottom-up Web APIs with self-descriptive responses. Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop, 7692, 143–148.
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R. Verborgh, E. Mannens, and R. Van de Walle, “Bottom-up Web APIs with self-descriptive responses,” in Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop, 2015, vol. 7692, pp. 143–148.
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Verborgh, R., Mannens, E., Van de Walle, R.: Bottom-up Web APIs with self-descriptive responses. In: Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop. pp. 143–148 (2015).
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Verborgh, Ruben, et al. “Bottom-up Web APIs with Self-Descriptive Responses.” Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Research Workshop, vol. 7692, 2015, pp. 143–48.