jangle.org

jangle.org

Introduction and Background to Jangle

Jangle is a specification for applying the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) to library resources and for exposing these resources simply and RESTfully.

There are three basic principles that define Jangle:

• The library information model is broken up into four discrete concepts or entities: Actors, Resources, Items and Collections.
• The Jangle architecture is divided into two components, the Jangle core: the public facing AtomPub interface; and one or many connectors: applications that contain the business logic for translating specific systems into Jangle.
• The Jangle core and connectors communicate via an HTTP REST API using a defined JSON syntax.