Link Relation Types for Web Services
Erik Jan de Wilde · 2019
Many resources provided on the are part of sets of resources that are provided in a context that is managed by one particular service provider. Often, these sets of resources are referred to as Web Services or Web APIs. This specification defines link relations for representing relationships from those resources to ones that provide documentation, descriptions, or metadata for these services. Documentation is primarily intended for human consumers, whereas descriptions are primarily intended for automated consumers; metadata is supposed to be information about a service's context. It also defines a link relation to identify status resources that are used to represent operational information about service status.