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Re: [BioRDF] RDF query languages

From: Duncan Hull <duncan.hull@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:00:11 +0000
Message-ID: <440BFA1B.6010108@cs.man.ac.uk>
To: chris mungall <cjm@fruitfly.org>
CC: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org

chris mungall wrote:

> I think both approaches are a little too XML-centric; fine for a few  
> use cases but in general the syntax obscures the declarative 
> semantics  of the mapping which must be kept as perspicuous as 
> possible. Why not  just use an RDF query language?


Agreed. The thing with RDF is that there are so many query languages to 
choose from :)

http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/pha/rdf-query/

Duncan

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