WellFormedWeb.org
Title
The Well-Formed Web - Exploring the limits of XML and HTTP
Description
What is this site?
Back at the beginning of October I published an essay called The Well-Formed Web. It was my response to Paul Ford's essay How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web and a reaction to the hype surrounding the Semantic Web. I received a lot of positive feedback on the article. I also discovered that Simon St. Laurent came to the same destination as I did but he was coming from the hype surrounding Web Services. The basic idea is to see how far you can get just using HTTP and XML. This site will be a clearing house for ideas, tips, techniques and code, rooted in working examples and real-world experience in implementing the Well-Formed Web.
What this site is not.
This site is not bashing RDF or non-RESTian Web Services. Attacking or trying to tear down other peoples work is non-productive and plainly not my style. My point in putting this site together is to explore the costs, benefits and limits of the Well-Formed Web and to provide a different perspective to developers as they decide how to implement their projects.
What's coming up
I firmly believe in practicing what I preach and so this site is powered by a RESTian Web Service. The backend is Python script and the client side is a C# application. Over the next two or three weeks I will be explaining how the system works, the costs and benefits of the design, and of course publishing the source code.
Languages
English
