Sharing Linked Web APIs from multiple repositories

Modern Web APIs allow to open up and exchange data and services over the Web. To this aim, Web APIs are shared across large on-line repositories, where effective search facilities must be provided. However, different repositories adopt Web API representation models emphasizing complementary aspects. In this paper, we provide as a case study the application of a novel framework based on Linked Data prin- ciples to share Linked Web APIs across multiple repositories, in order to enhance effective search on them. Linked Data principles are applied to identify and use semantic links across repositories in order to exploit their complementary Web API descriptions