hRESTS: An HTML Microformat for Describing RESTful Web Services. Kopecḱy, J., Gomadam, K., & Vitvar, T. In pages 619-625.
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The Web 2.0 wave brings, among other aspects, the Programmable Web: increasing numbers of Web sites provide machine-oriented APIs and Web services. However, most APIs are only described with text in HTML documents. The lack of machine-readable API descriptions affects the feasibility of tool support for developers who use these services. We propose a microformat called hRESTS (HTML for RESTful Services) for machine-readable descriptions of Web APIs, backed by a simple service model. The hRESTS microformat describes main aspects of services, such as operations, inputs and outputs. We also present two extensions of hRESTS: SA-REST, which captures the facets of public APIs important for mashup developers, and MicroWSMO, which provides support for semantic automation.
@inproceedings{ kop08,
  crossref = {wi2008},
  author = {Jacek Kopecḱy and Karthik Gomadam and Tomas Vitvar},
  title = {hRESTS: An HTML Microformat for Describing RESTful Web Services},
  pages = {619-625},
  topic = {hrests[1] sarest[1] wsmo[0.8] microwsmo[1]},
  uri = {http://www.vitvar.com/doc/WI2008-KopeckyGV.pdf},
  abstract = {The Web 2.0 wave brings, among other aspects, the Programmable Web: increasing numbers of Web sites provide machine-oriented APIs and Web services. However, most APIs are only described with text in HTML documents. The lack of machine-readable API descriptions affects the feasibility of tool support for developers who use these services. We propose a microformat called hRESTS (HTML for RESTful Services) for machine-readable descriptions of Web APIs, backed by a simple service model. The hRESTS microformat describes main aspects of services, such as operations, inputs and outputs. We also present two extensions of hRESTS: SA-REST, which captures the facets of public APIs important for mashup developers, and MicroWSMO, which provides support for semantic automation.}
}

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