Re: Comments on SPARQL 17-Feb-2005 draft (SOURCE, Multiple-graph queries)

> 1. Multiple-graph queries 
> 
> I think these should be removed from the basic SPARQL core, since I feel 
> they add a fair deal of implementation complexity and an application can 
> achieve the same result by submitting multiple queries, possibly to 
> different query processors.
>
> I also feel it would be premature to standardize an approach to multi-graph 
> querying ahead of there being a consensus/standard for something like RDF 
> named graphs.

I think the WG has considered this argument under our SOURCE issue.
  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#SOURCE

While some argued, as you do, that it's premature to standardize,
use cases such as

 2.11 Finding Out New Things About People (Social Network Analysis)
 http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-dawg-uc/#u2.11

motivated this design. More explicitly, it motivated a design objective...

 4.2 Data Integration and Aggregation
 http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-dawg-uc/#d4.2

which, by the way, was accepted without consensus, i.e. over an
objection. So that will have to get reviewed when we request CR/PR.
Though I don't see sufficient new information to re-open this issue in
the WG, I have noted your comment under the SOURCE issue so that it
will be part of that review.

Feel free to add any further arguments that perhaps the WG
has not considered, and please stay tuned for our last call
documents; I hope by then we will have achieved a greater
level of consensus.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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