This document discusses REST (Representational State Transfer) as an alternative to SOAP for building web services. It outlines some benefits of REST such as being simple and language neutral. It then provides examples of how REST has been used at the National Library of Australia including for audio delivery services, a wiki, and identity and copyright services. It concludes by inviting questions about REST and its use.

1. RESTafarian-ism
@ the NLA

2. Why REST?
•Simple
•Language neutral
•Not SOAP

3. How?
•Technologies
•Wiki
•Talk, talk, talk

4. Issues

5. Debug this

6. Other issues faced
•Over-engineering
•Extreme MVC
•Project coordination

7. Useful?
•Lucene/Solr
•Voyager service
•Identity service
•Copyright status http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr
•Digital repository
•Library patron

8. audio delivery

9. audio delivery
MARCXML
Collection service
http://soa.nla.gov.au/vi/
collection/db/nla/3603882
MODS
Audio website
METS PROFILE
Digital repository
service
http://soa.nla.gov.au/vi/
dcmdb/mets/nla-ch-un3603882
MP3
Streaming server

10. use in moderation

11. questions
tingram@nla.gov.au