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Author Radcliffe, Nicholas

Title Getting Started with Fluidinfo
Published Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (138 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; Organization of this Book; Versions; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; SafariĀ® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 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; Chapter 2. Fluidinfo from the Command Line; Getting Started with the Tags, Show, and Get Commands; Tagging and Untagging; Specifying Objects
Managing Tags and NamespacesListing 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; Chapter 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 DataA 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; Chapter 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 ObjectsChapter 5. Programming with FOM; FOM Fundamentals; Namespaces and Tags; Working with Objects; Searching Objects; Working with Permissions; Putting It All Together; Chapter 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
Chapter 7. Fluidinfo's RESTful APIMaking HTTP Requests to Fluidinfo; User Validation; Request Headers; Response Headers; Encoding; API Endpoints; /about; /namespaces; /objects; /permissions; /tags; /users; /values; Chapter 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; Chapter 9. Conventions for the About Tag; A Book Example; The Perfect About Tag; Normalization and Standardization; Specificity, Ambiguity, and Language; Languages
Summary Imagine a public storage system that has a place online for structured data about everything that exists--or that could exist. This book introduces Fluidinfo, a system that enables you to store information about anything, real or imaginary, in any digital form. You'll learn how to organize and search for data, and decide who can use, modify, and extend what you've contributed. This guide demonstrates Fluidinfo's potential to create social data, with facilities that encourage users and applications to share, remix, and reuse data in ways they may not have anticipated. You'll learn how to use tool
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SUBJECT Fluidinfo
Fluidinfo. blmlsh
Subject Cloud computing.
Databases.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Automation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Robotics.
Cloud computing
Databases
Form Electronic book
Author Tollervey, Nicholas
ISBN 9781449331801
1449331807
9781449331795
1449331793
9781449307097
1449307094