JSONDiscoverer: Visualizing the schema lurking behind JSON documents

The so-called API economy is pushing more and more companies to provide open Web APIs to access their data, typically using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as interchange data format. While JSON has been designed to be easy to read and parse, their structure is implicit. This poses a serious p...

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Published in:Knowledge-based systems Vol. 103; pp. 52 - 55
Main Authors: Cánovas Izquierdo, Javier Luis, Cabot, Jordi
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2016
Knowledge-Based Systems
Subjects:
Application program interfaces (Computer software)
coincidencia de conceptos
coincidència de conceptes
Concept matching
Consumption
detecció d'esquema
detección de esquema
Economics
Format
Interfaces de programación de aplicaciones (Software)
Interfícies de programació d'aplicacions (Programari)
Java (programming language)
JSON
Knowledge base
Links
Pushing
Schema discovery
Web API
Websites
Schema discovery
Concept matching
Web API
JSON
ISSN:0950-7051, 1872-7409
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Summary:The so-called API economy is pushing more and more companies to provide open Web APIs to access their data, typically using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as interchange data format. While JSON has been designed to be easy to read and parse, their structure is implicit. This poses a serious problem when consuming and integrating Web APIs from different sources since it forces us to manually analyze each individual API in detail. This paper presents JSONDiscoverer, a tool that alleviates this problem by discovering (and visualizing) the implicit schema of JSON documents as well as possible composition links among JSON-based Web APIs. Tool website: http://som-research.uoc.edu/tools/jsonDiscoverer
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ISSN:0950-7051
1872-7409
DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2016.03.020