The fallacy of the multi-API culture conceptual and practical benefits of representational state transfer ( )

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 233-252

  Verborgh, Ruben ^a   Van Hooland, Seth ^b   Cope, Aaron Straup ^c   Chan, Sebastian ^c   Mannens, Erik ^a   Van De Walle, Rik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c National Design Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypermedia; Information architecture; REST; Uniform interface; Web APIs; Web applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923698130     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-07-2013-0098     Document Type: Article

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