Re: [GRAPHS] Follow your graph nose.

I suggest (as co-chair this time!) that the Graph TF decide whether this is a serious consideration.  If so, the TF can raise it at a telecon to the rest of the WG.

Regards,
Dave




On Mar 2, 2011, at 09:09, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:

> The SPARQL 1.1 RDF Dataset HTTP Protocol (near but not yet at Last Call)
> specifies that a GET against the IRI of a graph in a graph store should
> return the contents of that graph. See
> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/http-rdf-update/#http-get .
> 
> If this WG feels strongly otherwise, it would make a lot of sense to
> setup a cross-WG coordination group as soon as possible, as the SPARQL
> WG hopes to move to Last Call within a few weeks or so.
> 
> Lee
> 
> On 3/2/2011 8:04 AM, Fabien Gandon wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> An other issue that was touched in the discussions about IRI to identify g-boxes/graphs/etc. is the application of the follow your nose principle of linked data to RDF graph [1].
>> 
>> As I remember from the workshop there were at least two opinions on that matter:
>> 
>> Opinion (1) : When I follow the IRI of a graph I should get a serialization of the triples contained in that graph.
>> 
>> Opinion (2) : When I follow the IRI of a graph I should get triples about that IRI.
>> 
>> In other words if I have the following dataset:
>> 
>> :G1 { http://dbpedia.org/page/Antibes geo:lat 43.580833 ; geo:long 7.123889 . }
>> 
>> :G1 dc:date "2010-11-12"^^xsd:date ;
>>     rdf:type ex:GPSData .
>> 
>> On dereferencing :G1
>> 
>> Option (1) would return
>> http://dbpedia.org/page/Antibes geo:lat 43.580833 ; geo:long 7.123889 .
>> 
>> Option (2) would return
>> :G1 dc:date "2010-11-12"^^xsd:date ;
>>     rdf:type ex:GPSData .
>> 
>> Now I could see pros and cons for each option:
>> 
>> Option (1) provides an easy way to fetch graphs.
>> Option (2) seems to me more in-line with practices of linked data where the dereferencing often resembles a SPARQL DESCRIBE<URI>
>> 
>> If I had to chose, I would prefer option (2) to have a more consistent behavior and remain independent of the type of resource identified by the IRI i.e. whether it is a graph or not I always get triples *about* the IRI / Resource. One could then have a vocabulary to allow additional queries e.g.
>> 
>> :G1 rdf:type rdf:Graph ;
>>     sparql:endpoint<http://dbpedia.org/sparql>  ;
>>     ex:size "42" .
>> 
>> That being said a third option that I didn't see mentioned so far could be to send everything on dereferencing the IRI i.e. the graph together with its metadata.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
>> --
>> fabien, inria, @fabien_gandon, http://fabien.info
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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