Aaron Swartz’s A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work

This short work is the first draft of a book manuscript by Aaron Swartz written for the series "Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web" at the invitation of its editor, James Hendler. Unfortunately, the book wasn't completed before Aaron's death in January 2013. As a tribute, the editor and publisher are publishing the work digitally without cost.From the author's introduction:" . . . we will begin by trying to understand the architecture of the Web -- what it got right and, occasionally, what i