Re: Freetext query variable representation format or datatype (was: variable representations edited for spec)

• From: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
• Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:39:00 +0100
• To: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
• Cc: Hydra <public-hydra@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <76AB40DA-3FEB-48FE-A8A9-DFD736FA711D@ugent.be>

> ?n, yeah. Nothing currently specified says that a template with the
> variables "x" and "n" results in something like
> 
>    "?x foaf:familyName "?anthal*"^^<ex:wildcardExpression>
> 
> We just say that a template that is the value of hydra:search can be used to
> query something (typically a collection). How the query is constructed is
> left open by the current spec. This is something we need to fix (or add
> specialized subproperties) but I don't think this is same issue as to
> whether a freetext query is a variable representation format (IMO, it
> clearly isn't) or a datatype (and thus a "structured value").
> 
> Thoughts?

Brief thought here—this interpretation seems very complex.
In the end, it might not mean much to have such mappings then,
because there is not a lot a machine can infer from it.

Is indeed very relevant to issue 45 about hydra:filter.

Best,

Ruben

Received on Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:39:34 UTC