- From: Bernd Simon <bernd.simon@wu-wien.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:10:32 +0200
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Erik Duval <Erik.Duval@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, Stefaan Ternier <stefaan.ternier@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, Daniel Olmedilla <olmedilla@l3s.de>, "zoltan.miklos@wu-wien.ac.at" <zoltan.miklos@wu-wien.ac.at>, Frans Van Assche <frans.van.assche@eun.org>, David Massart <david.massart@eun.org>, massimo@w3.org, "stefan.sobernig-wu-wien.ac.at" <stefan.sobernig@wu-wien.ac.at>
Hi, Throughout the last 2 years a group of 20+ researchers have been investigating the issue of query protocols in the context of the R&D projects ELENA, ProLearn, Ariadne, ICLASS, .... As a result of that work the Simple Query Interface was designed as a query-language neutral interface for exchanging queries. The interface is currently in the process of being standardized by the CEN/ISSS and talks with IEEE LTSC on fast tracking SQI have been initiated. The presentation to this paper is available at and should give you a very quick intro is available at: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/wi/bsimon/publikationen/sqi-www-2005-05-10.pdf You can learn more about the rational behind the design from the following paper: Simon, B., Massart, D., van Assche, F., Ternier, S., Duval, E., Brantner, S., et al. (2005). A Simple Query Interface for Interoperable Learning Repositories. In D. Olmdeilla, N. Saito & B. Simon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interoperability of Web-based Educational Systems. Chiba, Japan. http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/e-learning/interoperability/www2005-workshop-sqi-2005-04-14.pdf A lot of SQI resources (specs, WSDL bindings, sample code, case studies with operational prototypes, ..) are available via http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/vqwiki-2.5.5/jsp/Wiki?LorInteroperability I have not investigated the SPARQL protocol a lot, yet, but the first thought that came up to my mind was, why SPARQL would need its own protocol and why the query API issue is not covered at a more general level at W3C? Best regards, Bernd PS: I will attend the Semantic Web Foundations Session at the WWW Conference (tomorrow Friday, 1.30 pm), in case somebody wants to discuss face to face. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Dr. Bernd Simon Bernd.Simon@wu-wien.ac.at Homepage: http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/people/simon.html Department of Information Systems & New Media Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at Tel: (+43-1) 31 336 x4328, Fax: (+43-1) 31 336 x904328 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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