Re: [dcat] Tomorrow's dcat Agenda

On 10-04-22 19:53, Erik Wilde wrote:
> and in the same way as you don't give the world SQL access to your
> relational data, my guess is that you won't give the world SPARQL
> access to your RDF data; the main reasons being that you want to be
> able to enforce constraints, exercise access control, control
> optimized access paths, and you want the services to be independent of
> implementation details.

FWIW, data.gov.uk and ckan.net both do make a habit of making SPARQL
access available to the world. Without write operations, of course, and
with resource restrictions. I think that it is not unusual to have both
dereferenceable URIs and a SPARQL endpoint.

Cheers,
-w

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