Web3 Services

Before looking at the different APIs here is a short overview of the different services exposed by the Web3 Platform.

Topic Map Service

The Topic Map Service provides access to and update capabilities for all topic map data structures. It supports everything from creating a new topicmap to updating the property of a specific topic. It can also be used to query a topic map and import XTM.

The base URI for all things to do with the Topic Map Service is

http://{server}/web3/topicmaps/

This resource will provide a list of all Topic Maps managed on the server.

Schema Service

The Schema Service provides capabilities for creating, updating and getting Topic Maps schemas. A schema defines a set of constraints for what kind of topics and associations can be in a given topicmap. e.g. Topics of type person must have an birth date occurrence, and can be connected via an employment association to topics of type company.

Linked Data Service

The Linked Data Service is a read-only service that will attempt to map web requests to the subject identifiers of topics in a given topic map. It responds to these requests by returning, via a 303 redirect, the RDF representation of the requested topic.