RE: SKOS API and web-service

Dan,

Thanks for this insight. 
The SPARQL approach indeed is much more generic and accomodates more easily
SKOS extensions

I did miss out on the SPARQL 2 extensions and in particular the full text
search is a particular feature I would be needing for retrieving concepts by
keyword.

kr, Johan De Smedt. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbrickley@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dan Brickley
Sent: Wednesday, 08 April, 2009 09:42
To: Johan De Smedt
Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org; public-swd-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: SKOS API and web-service

On 8/4/09 08:42, Johan De Smedt wrote:
> Dear,
>
> Following the new CR for SKOS,
> is there an update planned for
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/skosapi.html ?
>
> Thanks for information or advice.

Let me turn the question around, if you don't mind.

Since we began the SKOS work in the SWAD-Europe project 5 years ago, a 
lot has happened. We now have a standardised RDF query language (SPARQL) 
including a Web (HTTP/REST) protocol and supporting formats (XML, JSON).

W3C also has recently renewed work on SPARQL. See the SPARQL Working 
Group wiki page here - http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Main_Page
Charter - http://www.w3.org/2009/01/sparql-charter
Proposed features - http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Category:Features


- Is there anything in the old SKOS API that you couldn't do in SPARQL?

- Is there anything *useful* in the old SKOS API that you couldn't do in 
SPARQL?

- Is there anything useful in the old SKOS API that could fit into the 
proposed features for SPARQL 2.0?

- Is there any implementation experience about updating SKOS API-based 
systems to use SKOS "2009" which should be written down in the wiki 
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SkosDev ?

- Would publishing that advice as a snapshotted W3C Note instead make 
any practical difference? (eg. a precise reference is needed for 
government agencies commissioning software?)

Thanks for any detail,

cheers,

Dan


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