Resource Library
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[edit] General Resources
[edit] Background Reading
The following are papers and articles that are recommended reading for platform development. Please feel free to add to these lists.
- Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
- The Atom Publishing Protocol
- Cool URIs don't change
- RDF Primer
- Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
- How to Create a REST Protocol and part 2 Show Me the Code and part 3 Constructing or Traversing URIs?
- XML on the Web Has Failed
- Caching Tutorial
- Common REST Mistakes
- Jon Udell:The power of the URL-line and Jakob Nielsen: URL as UI
- HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
- Tom Coates: Native to a web of data plus transcript of talk
The following may be useful for deeper understanding of the principles.
- RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1
- RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
- RFC 2046:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
- RFC 3023:XML Media Types
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)
- Namespaces in XML 1.1
- Representational State Transfer (REST)
- Common HTTP Implementation Problems
- RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)
- RDF: Understanding the Striped RDF/XML Syntax
- RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
- RFC 2109: HTTP State Management Mechanism
- RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
- REST articles by Joe Gregorio
- Design Issues by Tim Berners-Lee particularly What do HTTP URIs Identify?, What the Semantic Web can represent, Web Architecture from 50,000 feet
- Location, Location, Location: Web Services Need URIs and Building HTTP-Based Web Services with .NET
