Re: The NoSPARQL use case

Hi all,

Le lun. 02 mars 2015 12:08:27 CET, Richard Cyganiak a écrit :
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> Hi Jose,
>
>>
>> On 1 Mar 2015, at 21:19, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo <jelabra@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
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>> there is a perception that SPARQL is too low level (this was one of 
>> the conclusions from the RDF validation workshop).
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>
>
> The conclusion from the workshop wasn’t that SPARQL is too “low 
> level”. The conclusion was that SPARQL queries cannot easily be 
> inspected and understood, either by human beings or by machines, to 
> uncover the constraints that are to be respected.
>
> A “macro” mechanism that wraps SPARQL queries into named parametrised 
> templates should fully address this particular concern
Do not agree here. Named macros are not understandable by machines ... 
except if the human associates with the macro a formal description that 
algorithms can deal width.

Macros might even be misunderstood by humans, even if the macro comes 
with a very carefully written description in English. Only languages 
with well defined formal semantics allow to express things w/o ambiguity.

Iovka

Received on Monday, 2 March 2015 13:12:05 UTC