Rhizome Philosophy

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See the main [[thoughts/Rhizome Proposal|Rhizome Proposal]] Interoperable Data on the web today is mostly treated as second-class to applications. In this form, data is contextual – it only makes sense in the context of what you can do in an application.

See the main Rhizome Proposal Interoperable Data on the web today is mostly treated as second-class to applications. In this form, data is contextual — it only makes sense in the context of what you can do in an application. At its best, developers and companies expose this data in the form of an API, not allowing you to actually access the underlying data but rather only giving you a limited range of actions or verbs that you can perform on it. This is known as verb-based interoperability and it creates a form of n-to-n problem where every app needs to know what the APIs of another app are to

Rhizome Philosophy

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