Re: RDF to HTML templating

On 18 Dec 2013, at 23:59, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:

> Again, I believe https://github.com/antoniogarrote/backbone does almost exactly what you are describing in regards to creating rdf  changesets from user-supplied input.
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Thanks Wes, I'll look at that. We were thinking of using Antonio's backbone lib anyway. In fact he came
over to the "Weave the Web We Want" workshop we had at Mozilla in Paris late last month, [1]
and we worked with it for a couple of days, but it's still very early stages and there were a few bugs. 
So we continued with rdflib for a bit which I had studied in more detail over the past year.

We probably don't yet need much SPARQL support. Pointed Graphs seem like a very simple abstraction that can 
do most of what we need. It also works very well with the notion of Observables monad from the Rx JS library
as shown here:

  https://github.com/stample/rww-play/blob/withPointedGraph/public/ldp/lib/pointedGraph.js#L68

This allows us to follow links and skip into different graphs, in an asynchronous ways  which can be very useful. 

I'll look at Antonio's code more in detail. If I can get to the point of mastering it enough
so that I can fix the bugs myself then that will be definitevely something I'll use.

TimBL's rdflib is interesting initially because he has all the pieces for fetching graphs, and it keeps
the HTTP metadata in the default store, using an ontology he developed for this purpose. This
allows the the framework to know if it needs to update a remote graph when representations are outdated, 
and it would make it easy to do conditional GETs, PUTs etc... This could easily be ported to 
RDFStore I suppose, but I thought I'd first make sure I'd understand TimBLs thinking in detail first.

Thanks again for the tip,

	Henry


[1] https://github.com/stample/wiki/wiki/Weave-the-web-we-want

> Wes Turner
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