ULISSE (USOCs KnowLedge Integration and dissemination for Space Science and Exploration) is a research project to…
describe space experiments and their results using Topic Maps. This allows us to create a knowledge base with innovative navigation, filtering and querying capabilities for the project. We chose Ontopia as the topic maps engine to power this knowledge base.
While designing the overall ULISSE system, we identified the need for a RESTful web interface to Ontopia. Currently, we have been designing this interface internally and plan to start implementing it during the summer at which point we will also make it available as open source under the same license as Ontopia and hopefully/ideally as a part of Ontopia.
We approached the design of this REST interface as a generic interface for accessing a topic maps engine and it is not Ontopia- or ULISSE-specific. It could conceivably be implemented over any Topic Maps engine. (David Damen, 2 June 2010, Time to put Topic Maps to REST?)
Further details are available as a Google doc, http://bit.ly/9NEP2x.
You might also want to consider subscribing to TopicMapMail to follow this and other topic map related discussions.
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Update: 3 June 2010
I was reminded of Robert Barta’s 2005 presentation at Extreme Markup, TMIP, A RESTful Topic Maps Interaction Protocol, Extreme Conference archive copy. Includes performance analysis.
And Robert points to the specification TMIP, Topic Map Interaction Protocol 0.3, Specification.
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