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Title (Goal)	As a repository manager, I want to expose a web service at a URI bound to a Fedora object
Primary Actor	Repository Manager
Scope
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Author	Aaron Birkland
Story (A paragraph or two describing what happens)	My institution has developed a web application which provides a nifty visualization (html + js) for certain kinds of Fedora objects, as well as an XML representation of the same. To create the vizualization, my application reads a fedora object, queries a few indexes, does a few computations, and renders an appropriate representation based on the desired content-type. I would like to expose this web service at a URI `/rest/path/to/object/viz:nifty` for any object `/path/to/object` with an rdf:type of viz:Visualizable. I'd ideally like to wire my application to the viz:nifty URIs by creating or editing some sort of configuration file or fedora object, rather than compiling and deploying specialized code to do that.

API Extension Architecture's role:

Allow repository manager to bind path segment viz:nifty to objects with rdf:type of viz:Visualizable
Allow the repository manager to specify the address of the web service that implements viz:nifty
Route user's http requests from viz:nifty to the web service, and return its response
Provide the identity of the relevant Fedora object to the web service when routing http request to it.

Web application's role:

Repository manager's role:

Deploy web application
Specify address of web application, rdf:type of relevant objects, and URI path segement (viz:nifty)

Fedora's role: