MICRO-RESOURCE - A Microformat Framework for Dual Restful Web Services

Li Li, Wu Chou

2010

Abstract

RESTful architecture style that underlies the Web has gained rapid adoption as a way to develop web services for machines. But the full potential of REST is hindered by the fact that HTML pages designed for human interactions are not suitable for machine processing. To address this problem, we developed a microformat framework, called micro-resource, to extend web sites into dual RESTful web services for both human and machines alike with minimum changes. This framework avoids the pitfalls of alternative “parallel” web services by keeping the correspondence and duality between human and machine webs. This framework is simple, extensible and also composable with other existing microformats. Initial application of this framework on some RESTful service composition shows that the approach is efficient and feasible.

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in Harvard Style

Li L. and Chou W. (2010). MICRO-RESOURCE - A Microformat Framework for Dual Restful Web Services . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2, pages 56-63. DOI: 10.5220/0002805500560063


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist10,
author={Li Li and Wu Chou},
title={MICRO-RESOURCE - A Microformat Framework for Dual Restful Web Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2010},
pages={56-63},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002805500560063},
isbn={978-989-674-025-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - MICRO-RESOURCE - A Microformat Framework for Dual Restful Web Services
SN - 978-989-674-025-2
AU - Li L.
AU - Chou W.
PY - 2010
SP - 56
EP - 63
DO - 10.5220/0002805500560063