The project

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The project

Information Retrieval A.A. 2011-12

P. Ferragina

– Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa –

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AIRPIM

• Social network for digital cards

• www.airpim.com

• Simple RESTful API in JSON format

– JSON library http://json.org

– Apache HTTP client library in JAVA http://hc.apache.org

– Advanced REST client application (Chrome app)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ahdjpgllmllekelefacdedbjnjaplfjn

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API - Login

http://www.airpim.com/login

• POST

• HTTP authentication

– Username = unipi2011 – Password = unipi2011

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API - Schema

http://www.airpim.com/me/schema?keys=concepts

• GET

• list all available attributes for digital cards in the network

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API - Search

http://www.airpim.com/it_IT/me/search

• GET

• Search for cards. Parameters:

– q=<query> (q=* to list all) – s=<number> (start index)

– l=<number> (number of returned cards) – slots=<comma-separated list of attributes>

(additional information to include in the resp)

• First 12 cards, with identity and company infos:

http://www.airpim.com/it_IT/me/search?q=*&

s=0&l=12&slots=personidentity,companyidentity

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API – Card details

http://www.airpim.com/it_IT/me/card/

• GET

• Retrieve all attributes for a digital card

• Append the __guid__ attribute to the url with parameter details=1

• Details for guid=4cbdfa3d77bc37968ec83e386b2611e0 http://

www.airpim.com/it_IT/me/card/4cbdfa3d77bc37968ec83e386b2 611e0?details=1

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API – Other cards

• Use the search API with the query:

q=othercards%3D<guid>

• Retrieve all cards owned by that <guid>

• Other cards for

guid=2b7e8896b7ef3c44c2d7d59adce611df

http://www.airpim.com/it_IT/me/search?q=othercards%3D2b7 e8896b7ef3c44c2d7d59adce611df

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Tracks

GOAL: Improve the search experience

• Enrich a card with some text drawn from web

• Deploy thesaurus to expand queries

• Social-network based ranking of search results

• …