RDQL + DAWG = BRQL

Steve, Dave and I were involved in a general semantic web meeting last week
in Bristol.  We covered a range of things from storage systems to OWL
subsets.

Out of those discussions, we came up with an outline design that extends
RDQL to meet the DAWG requirements for a query langauge. It does not cover
protocol issues.

    http://jena.hpl.hp.com/~afs/BRQL.html

Features:

+ SELECT DISTINCT; SELECT LIMIT 
+ New result form: DESCRIBE 
+ New result form: CONSTRUCT 
+ Triple source identification (sometimes known as "quads") 
+ Optional triple matching 
+ Non-existent triple testing 
+ Filter functions on values 

The link above describes these in more detail.  It isn't a finished design;
most of the features have been implemented somewhere before.

	Dave, Steve, Andy