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unAPI
APIs are a great way to share metadata, one thing we have lots to share. However, each API is a custom job. Using it requires adhering to the particular conditions of each site. Creatng one requires starting from scratch. More places would have one, if they did not require so much work to construct. More places would find uses for the iformation, if they did not have to write code for each place. Welcome unAPI.
unAPI is a simple website API convention. There are many wonderful APIs and protocols for syndicating, searching, and harvesting content from diverse services on the web. They're all great, and they're all already widely used, but they're all different. We want one API for the most basic operations necessary to perform simple clipboard-copy functions across all sites. We also want this API to be able to be easily layered on top of other well-known APIs.The objective of unAPI is to enable web sites with HTML interfaces to information-rich objects to simultaneously publish richly structured metadata for those objects, or those objects themselves, in a predictable and consistent way for machine processing.
unAPI
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Apifinder
APIFinder is a growing index of various application programming interfaces (APIs). An API provides a set of instructions that you can use to make new software interoperate with existing applications. This site is also a place to share ideas and advice...
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Unapi
Introducing unAPI by Daniel Chudnov, Peter Binkley, Jeremy Frumkin, Michael J. Giarlo, Mike Rylander, Ross Singer and Ed Summers appears in the latest Ariadne It describes unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications....
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Greesemonkey Script For Unapi
Alf Eaton has put together a Greasemonkey script for unAPI.unAPI, the lightweight mechanism for retrieving objects or their metadata in different formats, reached version 1 a few weeks ago, and has been implemented in HubMed and other places already....
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Unapi
unAPI Version 1 (normative) is now available.unAPI is a tiny HTTP API any web application may use to co-publish discretely identified objects in both HTML pages and disparate bare object formats. It consists of three parts: an identifier microformat,...
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Unapi
Revision 3 of unAPI has been released.unAPI is a tiny HTTP API any web application may use to co-publish discretely identified objects in both HTML pages and disparate bare object formats. It consists of three parts: an identifier microformat, an HTML...
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