devlog

i made an RDF API to the del.icio.us api, to make a point. The RDF version of the del.icio.us api works exactly the same as the real one, but the results are in RDF, and everything that goes through it gets stored in an RDF model. this means that you may get back more context about people or URLs or tags than you would through the regular API.

It requires basic auth as does the upstream API, it just forwards the login request and never stores the data locally. Otherwise by using this interface someone is implicitly consenting to have their data aggregated.

(delicious, if you haven’t heard of it,
is a bookmark aggregator, a kind of data dump, where you can subscribe to
links from people, topics or a combination of them. For people who look at the
web a lot, it seems very neat and useful. i’m hoping to find users who are
rdf-heads for this experiment…)
i would receive suggestions for this interface and the RDF data modelling gratefully.