Getting Started with Fluidinfo by Radcliffe, Nicholas J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Getting Started with Fluidinfo Preface

Organization of this Book Versions Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. What Is Fluidinfo?

The Openly Writable World Key Concepts

Objects Tags Users Permissions Queries

Organizational Metaphor

Like Wikipedia for Structured Data Like Delicious for Bookmarking Anything The About Tag

Signing Up for a Fluidinfo Account

2. Fluidinfo from the Command Line

Getting Started with the Tags, Show, and Get Commands Tagging and Untagging Specifying Objects Managing Tags and Namespaces

Listing Files and Namespaces: The ls Command Removing Tags and Namespaces: The rm Command Creating Tags and Namespaces: The mkns and touch Commands

The Fluidinfo Permissions System

Listing Permissions on Tags and Namespaces with ls -L Setting Permissions: Simple Use of the perms Command Shortcuts for Common Permissions Cases Setting Group Permissions

Extended Example: Working with Books in Fluidinfo

3. Social Data

Twitter and Social Data

Walled Gardens of Data Tickery: Twitter Data Only We Met At: Emerging Conventions in Twitter Data Tunkrank: Adding Value to Twitter Data A Query Like No Other

O’Reilly Metadata

Instant API Using the API Skillshelves: Repurposing and Augmenting O’Reilly Data A Query Like No Other

Blog Mining and Emerging Conventions

Boing Boing ReadWriteWeb Union Square Ventures A Query Like No Other

Social Data

4. Programming with Fluidinfo

Client Libraries

Introducing fluidinfo.py

Fluidinfo.py Fundamentals Common Tasks Using fluidinfo.py

Create a New Object Tag an Object with a Value Get a Specific Value from an Object Delete a Specific Value from an Object Query for Specified Values on Matching Objects

5. Programming with FOM

FOM Fundamentals

Namespaces and Tags Working with Objects Searching Objects Working with Permissions

Putting It All Together

6. Programming Fluidinfo with JavaScript

API Functions

DELETE GET HEAD POST PUT

Utility Functions

createObject del getObject query tag update

An Example Application: The Social Bookreader

Modeling Data: What Is a Book?

Granularity Structure

Viewing Data: The User Interface Application Logic: Putting It Together

Reading books Annotating books

Next Steps

7. Fluidinfo’s RESTful API

Making HTTP Requests to Fluidinfo

User Validation Request Headers Response Headers Encoding

API Endpoints

/about /namespaces /objects /permissions /tags /users /values

8. Advanced Use of the Fluidinfo Shell

Permissions in Depth Setting Individual Low-Level Permissions with perms -X Generating Unix-style Long Listings with ls -l and ls -g

9. Conventions for the About Tag

A Book Example The Perfect About Tag Normalization and Standardization Specificity, Ambiguity, and Language

Languages

Tags for Indicating Related Objects (Linking) Constructing About Tags for Common Objects The Abouttag Command Finding Fluidinfo Objects from Amazon Product Pages Generic Normalization Command Substitution

A. Fluidinfo Query Language Reference

Tag Presence: The has Operator Equality: The = Operator Numeric Inequality Comparisons: <, <=, >=, > Inexact Text Matching: The matches Operator Combining Queries with and, or, except, and Brackets List-Valued Tags: The contains Operator

About the Authors Colophon

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