AboutHiveRestService

The HIVE REST service was developed by Duane Costa of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTERNet). The HIVE REST interface provides JAX-RS based RESTful access to the HIVE Core API.

The HIVE REST service exposes the following interfaces:

• Schemes Resource: Scheme information
• Concepts Resources: Access to concepts within a scheme
• Searcher Resources: Keyword searching

About the RESTful Web Services

The RESTful approach to web services was developed in response to other web services paradigms, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). REST relies on the HTTP protocol, universal resource indicators (URI), and standard data formats (e.g., XML) to implement interfaces to web services.

See Also:

• A RESTful Approach to Web Services
• RESTful Web Services at Oracle
• Representational State Transfer at Wikipedia

HIVE REST API

This section demonstrates the various methods exposed by the HIVE REST interface. For more information, see the API documentation.

Schemes Resource

• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/schemeNames
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/lastDate
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/longName
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/numberOfConcepts
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/numberOfRelations
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/schemaURI
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/alphaIndex
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/subAlphaIndex/a
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/topConceptIndex
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/subTopConceptIndex/a

Concept Resources

• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/prefLabels
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/prefLabels/a
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/altLabels
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/broaders
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/narrowers
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/prefLabel
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/QName
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/relateds
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/SKOSFormat
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/Companies/children

Searcher Resources: Sample URLs

• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/SKOSFormat?keyword=activity
• http://hive.nescent.org/hive-rs/schemes/nbii/concepts/concept/SKOSFormat?prefLabel=Eruptions

See Also

Sample LTER hive-rs URLs

Full hive-rs API documentation

Sample Article Abstract for testing tagging service