Distributed Text Services (DTS): a Community-built API to Publish and Consume Text Collections as Linked Data

Bridget Almas (1) , Hugh Cayless (2) , Thibault Clérice , Vincent Jolivet (3) , Pietro Maria Liuzzo (4) , Jonathan Robie , Matteo Romanello (5) , Ian W. Scott (6)

1 SUNY - State University of New York
2 Duke University [Durham]
3 ENC - École nationale des chartes
4 Max-Planck-Institut
5 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne
6 Tyndale Seminary

The paper presents the Distributed Text Service API Specification, a community-built effort to facilitate the publication and consumption of texts and their structures as Linked Data. DTS was designed to be as generic as possible, providing simple operations for navigating collections, navigating within a text and retrieving textual content. While the DTS API uses JSON-LD as the serialization format for non-textual data (e.g. descriptive metadata), TEI XML was chosen as the minimum required format for textual data served by the API, in order to guarantee the interoperability of data published by DTS-compliant repositories. The paper describes the DTS API specifications by means of real-world examples, discusses the key design choices that were made, and concludes by providing a list of existing repositories and libraries that support DTS.

Mots clés: API Specification; Interoperability; FAIR; Text Navigation

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Bridget Almas, Hugh Cayless, Thibault Clérice, Vincent Jolivet, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, et al.. Distributed Text Services (DTS): a Community-built API to Publish and Consume Text Collections as Linked Data. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, 2023, Rolling Issue, pp.1-26. ⟨10.4000/jtei.4352⟩. ⟨hal-03183886v2⟩