InFoLiS II - State of the Code

It has been a busy six months of coding in the second funding phase of the InFoLiS project!

bolandka, dommii and kba have refactored the InfoLink code base from its state at the end of the original InFoLiS project into a state where the internal dependencies are vastly reduced by using common interfaces, unit tests are in place and there simple mechanisms for interacting with the system via HTTP.

To make this system accessible for external software agents using a public API, we decided early on to use a NodeJS+MongoDB+CoffeeScript stack and implemented it by creating various Open Source NPM modules.

Our public API has been online for some time but while we whole-heartedly encourage you to try it out, there is a sore lack of API documentation and extensive testing right now. If you are curious, though, feel free to check out our JSON-LD schema (supports content negotiation) or the HTML Demo that we created for our presentation at ELAG 2015.

At the pace InFoLiS is moving forward at the moment, we’re confident that we will accomplish a lot over the course of 2015 and that we’ll soon be able officially open up our API for your data.