- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:08:28 -0800
- To: guha@epinions-inc.com
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF-list <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Guha wrote: > > There are 2 kinds of APIs. > > (a) An text based API for one machine to ask another > for information about a particular object (e.g., machine > A asks machine B for all the contact related information > for Dan Brickley). I would refer to it as retrieval protocol + query language. I agree with Jeff that at least the query language should be represented in RDF. I wouldn't mind having an RDF-based protocol on top of TCP/IP either (but many people will find it inconvenient). > (c) A programatic API for a program to traverse/query > an RDF graph. Sergey
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