Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 27th November 2008 | RSS | LINK
Few days ago I tried out the SIOC Importer for Wordpress, which is really cool. The importer requires as input a URI, which must point to an RDF graph, parses the graph for all instances of the type sioc:Post (this includes normally Blog Postings and comments) and creates new content on the target site using [...]
Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 12th November 2008 | RSS | LINK
The “Same Origin Policy” or “Single Domain Restriction” which is implemented by most web browser security models, prevents a document or script loaded from one web page domain from getting or setting properties of a document from another domain (that means that they must have the same protocol, domain and port in order to be [...]
Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 12th November 2008 | RSS | LINK
oEmbed is a format which allows to embed the representation of a resource on a third party site without needing to parse it. Therefore a Provider implements the oEmbed API and allows a Consumer to fetch the representation of a resource and embed it directly on the Consumer’s site.
The advantage of oEmbed is that the [...]
Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 11th November 2008 | RSS | LINK
I am currently looking at the oAuth protocol, asking myself what is possible with oAuth and what is not possible?
Basically if you look at the oAuth flow diagram, you can see that the data sharing process is initiated by the Consumer (i.e. by a user stating on the Consumer application that he wants to allow [...]
Author: Claudia Wagner | Published: 06th November 2008 | RSS | LINK
As Henry Story already has pointed out in one of his Blog Posts Data Portability needs Linked Data, because it is impossible to move one thing and all its relations from one site to another using just copy by value, without moving everything. So copying references is the only solution to port and share data [...]