Review of Primer part 3...

Editorial, plus a SPARQL file needs changing.

*** Booking a Hotel Example

"One could write code in one's favorite language to extract and
combine these calendar data formats without using RDF."

overly formal? maybe:

"We can of course write code in our favorite language to extract and
combine these calendar data formats without using RDF."

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"However, RDF becomes more and more useful when combining different
kinds of data, not just one kind such as calendar data, since the cost
of combining and extracting different kinds of data goes down if all
different sorts of data can be transformed via GRDDL into RDF and then
can take advantage of RDF's ability to easily "mash-up"."
=>
"However, RDF becomes more and more useful when combining different
kinds of information, not just one such as calendar data. The cost of
combining and extracting different kinds of data goes down if all
different sorts of data can be transformed via GRDDL into RDF and then
can take advantage of RDF's ability to easily "mash-up"."

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"simple extraction of microformat to custom data format"
=>
"simple extraction of microformat to a custom data format"

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"These descriptions would allow an RDF spider (a scutter) "
=>
"These descriptions would allow an RDF crawler (a "scutter") "

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XFN example works ok.

Hotel review example ok except (bizarrely) the dates are converted
from e.g. "2006-01-29T19:12:33Z" to "20060129191233Z".

SPARQL query hotelquery1.rq works. (phew!)
SPARQL query hotelquery2.rq works. (phew!!)

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"The next step is to further restrict the results to only reviews by
our trusted list of contacts "
add period
(does the wording seem ok in thesse 2 sentences? I'm not sure)

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SPARQL query hotelquery3.rq works. (phew!!!)

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"SPARQL results can be obtained as XML or JSON and can easily be
consumed by another application. This can display the results on
screen, email them to Jane or it can be pulled into another
application to search the web for the best prices on the short list of
hotels."
=>
"SPARQL results can be obtained as XML or JSON and can easily be
consumed by another application. Such an application could display the
results on screen, email them to Jane or pass the information into
another application to search the web for the best prices on the short
list of hotels."

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*** Integrating Spreadsheets

[Is "ahttp://example.org/attendance/" really a valid URI? Don't worry
about it whatever...]

xcel transform works ok.

s/spreadhsheet/spreadsheet

the linked query (spreadsheetquery.rq) DOES NOT work, but the one as
given in the Primer text works ok.


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Received on Monday, 25 June 2007 19:16:16 UTC