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Design and Implementation of Multimedia Social Services on Elgg

2013; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4614-6747-2_2

1876-1119

Meng-Yen Hsieh, Yin-Te Tsai, Ching‐Hsien Hsu, Chao‐Hung Hung, Kuan‐Ching Li,

Caching and Content Delivery

This chapter designs and implements multimedia social services over an open social network engine, denoted as Elgg. Elgg with basic elements such as blogging, e-portfolios, and file sharing possesses a plug-in architecture, so that developers can design plug-ins to provide particular social services. The three plug-ins about video, photo, and blog with a number of Elgg’s APIs based on the Representational State Transfer architectural style are provided in the study. Therefore, external applications can easily announce and manage data on Elgg through these APIs. Not only providing details on the design of the Elgg APIs, but we also describe their request and response formats in REST styles. The prototype services are validated with a simple client. The data including text and multimedia from external applications can be automatically separated into the blogs and albums on Elgg.