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I agree with some of your points here, but I think you might be missing some context in the technologies that are being used to accomplish what OneGraph is doin
by adamkl 8y ago
I agree with some of your points here, but I think you might be missing some context in the technologies that are being used to accomplish what OneGraph is doing.
I agree that this example is that of a proprietary API bundling other proprietary APIs, but the technologies they are (likely) using are open source and make it possibly to build self-documenting (via GraphQL introspection) APIs with visualization [1] that can be combined in a modular fashion [2].
If every API was a GraphQL API, there’s no reason you couldn’t easily create a facade that links university course curriculums to, say, associated Wikipedia articles.
Not the semantic web, but it can be a very powerful way to combine data.
[1] https://apis.guru/graphql-voyager/ https://apis.guru/graphql-voyager/
[2] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphql-tools/schema-stitching.html https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphql-tools/schema-stit...
- sgrove 8y agoThank you, this is a really succinct and clear explanation of how I think about it as well.