Creating RESTful APIs over SPARQL endpoints using RAMOSE

Daquino, Marilena; Heibi, Ivan; Peroni, Silvio; Shotton, David M.

doi:10.3233/sw-210439

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“…To the first type of services belong the APIs that will allow participating institutions to share the citation data extracted from their digitised collections. Citation data will be exposed by using the shared data model (such as the OpenCitations Data Model discussed above) and harvested via either SPARQL-based APIs or common Web REST APIs acting as a proxy to a SPARQL endpoint-that can be easily set up using software such as RAMOSE [54], BASIL [55], grlc [56], OBA [57], and SPARQL.anything [58]. These APIs could be available as part of HuCI or be offered by external providers.…”

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The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities

2022

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Citation indexes are by now part of the research infrastructure in use by most scientists: a necessary tool in order to cope with the increasing amounts of scientific literature being published. Commercial citation indexes are designed for the sciences and have uneven coverage and unsatisfactory characteristics for humanities scholars, while no comprehensive citation index is published by a public organisation. We argue that an open citation index for the humanities is desirable, for four reasons: it would greatly improve and accelerate the retrieval of sources, it would offer a way to interlink collections across repositories (such as archives and libraries), it would foster the adoption of metadata standards and best practices by all stakeholders (including publishers) and it would contribute research data to fields such as bibliometrics and science studies. We also suggest that the citation index should be informed by a set of requirements relevant to the humanities. We discuss four such requirements: source coverage must be comprehensive, including books and citations to primary sources; there needs to be chronological depth, as scholarship in the humanities remains relevant over time; the index should be collection driven, leveraging the accumulated thematic collections of specialised research libraries; and it should be rich in context in order to allow for the qualification of each citation, for example, by providing citation excerpts. We detail the fit-for-purpose research infrastructure which can make the Humanities Citation Index a reality. Ultimately, we argue that a citation index for the humanities can be created by humanists, via a collaborative, distributed and open effort.

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2022

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“…To the first type of services belong the APIs that will allow participating institutions to share the citation data extracted from their digitized collections. Citation data will be exposed by using the shared data model (such as the OpenCitations Data Model discussed above) and harvested via either SPARQL-based APIs or common Web REST APIs acting as a proxy to a SPARQL endpoint -that can be easily set up using software such as RAMOSE [53], BASIL [54], grlc [55], OBA [56], and SPARQL.anything [57]. These APIs could be available into the HuCI virtual corpus or could be offered by external providers.…”

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The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities

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Romanello³

2021

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Citation indexes are by now part of the research infrastructure in use by most scientists: a necessary tool in order to cope with the increasing amounts of scientific literature being published. Commercial citation indexes are designed for the sciences and have uneven coverage and unsatisfactory characteristics for humanities scholars, while no comprehensive citation index is published by a public organization. We argue that an open citation index for the humanities is desirable, for four reasons: it would greatly improve and accelerate the retrieval of sources, it would offer a way to interlink collections across repositories (such as archives and libraries), it would foster the adoption of metadata standards and best practices by all stakeholders (including publishers) and it would contribute research data to fields such as bibliometrics and science studies. We also suggest that the citation index should be informed by a set of requirements relevant to the humanities. We discuss four: source coverage must be comprehensive, including books and citations to primary sources; there needs to be chronological depth, as scholarship in the humanities remains relevant over time; the index should be collection-driven, leveraging the accumulated thematic collections of specialized research libraries; and it should be rich in context in order to allow for the qualification of each citation, for example by providing citation excerpts. We detail the fit-for-purpose research infrastructure which can make the humanities citation index a reality. Ultimately, we argue that a citation index for the humanities can be created by humanists, via a collaborative, distributed and open effort.

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“…However, despite SPARQL's widespread adoption within the Semantic Web community, it has not spread more widely. For web developers, the Semantic Web is unpopular because of its complexity [16]. SPARQL is associated with a high learning curve, which prevents its wide adoption by developers who typically access and query data using web APIs.…”

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“…When RDF data is exposed through SPARQL endpoints, many developers find it difficult to access. Thus, there were several efforts aiming to convert any given SPARQL endpoint into a simple REST API [62,40,16].…”

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“…Large scale standardization efforts have been put forward, such as the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data [6], the Open Graph Protocol [29], and Schema.org [25], but none of these has become dominant. Instead, individual programmers with specific application needs have crafted special purpose code that accesses and merges together data from specific website APIs [16].…”

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Systems to Democratize and Standardize Access to Web APIs

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2021

Adjunct Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Today, many websites offer third-party access to their data through web APIs. However, manually encoding URLs with arbitrary endpoints, parameters, authentication handshakes, and pagination, among other things, makes API use challenging and laborious for programmers and untenable for novices. In addition, each API offers its own idiosyncratic data model, properties, and methods that a new user must learn, even when the sites manage the same common types of information as many others.In this thesis, I show how working with web APIs can be dramatically simplified by describing these APIs using a simple machine-readable ontology. I present a number of systems that can use these descriptions to access arbitrary APIs on the web. The first system lets users query and download data from any described web API. The second system exposes data behind web APIs as connected objects with standard types, allowing users to create interactive web applications that operate on the data accessible through these APIs. And the last system creates bridges between many heterogeneous types of data from different websites, allowing users to link and interact with data drawn from multiple web APIs simultaneously.

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Creating RESTful APIs over SPARQL endpoints using RAMOSE

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities

The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities

The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities

Systems to Democratize and Standardize Access to Web APIs

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