During the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2016 Fall meeting, held on October 30th, I presented my talk of Building Linked REST APIs. In this talk I address how we can use the same technology we use every day, to add semantics to Web APIs, and use those semantics to compose APIs automatically. The presentation was awarded as the best presentation of the Fall meeting.
The Web of Data contains a myriad of structured information sources on a large number of domains. Nevertheless, most of the information is available through Web APIs that act as isolated silos of data that cannot interoperate automatically with other resources and services on the Web. In this talk, we discuss techniques to combine the easy data integration techniques offered by Linked Data technologies, with the flexibility and availability of web services. To achieve this goal, we propose: (a) a description language to semantically describe functional and non-functional components of web services, and the relationships among those components, and (b) a middleware that plans composition chains, based on user’s specifications, optimizing their trade-offs.
Additionally, I presented in CASCON the paper “From Relations to Multi-Dimensional Maps: A SQL-to-HBase Transformation Methodology”, which summarizes my work on SQL-to-HBase migration.
Diego Serrano 