Web services working group

About Us

The GMOD semantic web working group was formed at the January 2009 GMOD Meeting after a consensus was reached about the need for a high level API that would be shared across all MODs. This working group was created to formalize these services in order to increase interoperability between the various MODs.

Members

• Josh Goodman - FlyBase
• Robert Buels - SOL Genomics Network

Initiatives

GMOD REST API

The GMOD REST API is being developed in order to provide a useful and easy to use interface to search and fetch high level information from model organism databases.

GMOD semantic web

The GMOD semantic web services are being developed in order to bring the full power of the semantic web to the rich information that all the model organism databases provide.

Discussions

Please direct discussions about this group to the GMOD-devel mailing list.

Links of interest

• Semantic Web vs Microformats
• Bridging the semantic Web and Web 2.0 with Representational State Transfer (REST)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures - Roy Fielding's thesis on REST