Olivier Thereaux

So @tomcoates says it's "the age of pointing at things" (http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/04/the_age_of_pointatthings/) which I guess is true if you are in the community of talking-about-thing-on-the-web. Wondering how we could craft a...

I guess we can't document the concepts of "web architecture for the rest of us" without a bit of history of hypertextuality? (cue notes from http://www.w3.org/2007/04/web-arch-keio/ ?)

Several BBC teams have published their "manifesto" on topics such as: - URI creation, - URI persistence, - linking, - availability of representations - APIs or format negotiation Examples: http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000063.html...

overall syntax / authoritative list of attributes

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The naming syntax makes mention of some attributes being mandatory (or _ as a minimum_) and others as optional. * if this language reflects "common usage" we should make it...

Review normative language and presentation

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Congrats putting together the first draft [specification for the syntax](https://github.com/theodi/BDNS/blob/master/BDNS_Specification_naming_syntax.md). It is a clear and useful document, especially so for a first iteration. If feedback from the industry on shape...

Where: https://octopub.io/ - while logged out scroll down to "create and publish" What: the image shown is the same as for "validate your data". Expected: designs show the following:

### Context The OAuth flow requests the ability not only to create repositories, but also to delete them. I originally thought this was due to the coarse granularity of GH...

Understand and document user management

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As we pick up pace on the re-development of Octopub and deal with tech debt, one of the areas worth looking at in greater details is the user management. From...

### Summary Octopub creates a repository for each data set. Give user the option to publish data set to an existing repo so as to keep number of repo in...