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Everything about Thing Description
The Thing Description (TD) (or W3C WoT Thing Description (TD)) is a royalty-free, open information model with a JSON based representation format for the Internet of Things (IoT). A TD provides a unified way to describe the capabilities of an IoT device or service with its offered data model and functions, protocol usage, and further metadata. Using Thing Descriptions help reduce the complexity of integrating IoT devices and their capabilities into IoT applications. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Thing DescriptionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Describing a thingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Cosmographia et geographia de AffricaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: WoTs-TDGV: Thing Description Generator and ValidatorCited 1 times
- Go sideways: Web of ThingsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: JSON-LDA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
WoTs-TDGV: Thing Description Generator and Validator
Are We All Talking about the Same Thing? Heterogeneity and Nomenclature in Description of Natural Health Products
The Play's the Thing: Audio Description in the Theatre
NFT Description Method for Managing Ownership of Media Thing Content
🆕 Influential since 2022
đź“š Books worth reading
Cosmographia et geographia de AffricaLeo Africanus, Robert Brown · 1556
At home and abroadMargaret Fuller · 1856
Baddeck, and that sort of thingCharles Dudley Warner · 1874
A description of the Western Islands of ScotlandMartin Martin, Donald MacLeod · 1703
Things JapaneseBasil Hall Chamberlain · 1890
Recollections of a lifetimeSamuel G. Goodrich · 1856
Things ChineseJ. Dyer Ball · 1892
Things as they are in AmericaWilliam Chambers · 1854
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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