A Maturity Model for Semantic RESTful Web APIs

Author

Salvadori, Ivan ; Siqueira, Frank

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Stat., Fed. Univ. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

fYear

2015

Firstpage

703

Lastpage

710

Abstract

Web APIs provide interfaces for interaction among systems based on the existing infrastructure for hosting Web sites and applications. The REST architectural style is the most employed approach for building Web APIs. However, the flexibility provided by REST may result in implementations with low quality design, limited reuse and poor documentation. This paper describes a maturity model for classifying Web APIs, aimed at promoting the adherence to REST architectural principles and the adoption of semantic Web technology in order to improve the design, reuse and documentation of Web APIs.

Keywords

Capability Maturity Model; Web services; application program interfaces; semantic Web; software architecture; software reusability; system documentation; REST architectural style; Web API classification; Web API design; Web API documentation; Web API reuse; Web applications; Web sites; maturity model; semantic RESTful Web API; semantic Web technology; system interaction; Couplings; Measurement; Object oriented modeling; Protocols; Semantic Web; Semantics; Servers; Linked Data; Maturity Model; REST; Semantic Web; Web API;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Services (ICWS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-7271-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWS.2015.98

Filename

7195633