seMeja is an ongoing research to develop a desktop system for university environment. To support the development of this system, an Application Programming Interface (API) is needed to provide access to online university services such as course notes, course schedules and course registration interface. This paper proposes a research to create and design the API for seMeja named seMejaAPI. The primary goal for this API is to allow programmers to quickly develop applications that can interact with university online system that support the API. The API needs to be versatile enough to encapsulate the variations of online university services and yet easy enough to be used by an application programmer. The design of the API is based on the four operations of Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD). In addition to these four basic concepts, the concept of 'Notify' has been added to support the registration for push-style notifications. These principles are then combined with an existing university-based ontology. This ontology defines the various objects used in a university environment. Two prototypes were then developed and tested to demonstrate an implementation of a portion of the API, along with a small working application.
The seMeja desktop system is a desktop environment designed for university students. The system needs to provide access to online university services such as course registration, and lecture notes through a variety of applications. In order to facilitate the creation of these applications, a special application programming language (API) for the system is being designed. The design of the API is based on the principles of Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD). To the basic four, we add the concept of 'Notify' to support registration for push-style notifications and updates. These principles are then combined with an established university ontology that defines the various objects used in a university environment. Therefore, any calls to the API can be thought of as a CRUD operation on a university object. This paper presents the initial design for this university API.
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