Re: Restpark - Minimal RESTful API for querying RDF triples

Hugh, I am actually still thinking about this. Was probably going to opt
for JSON-LD.


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> I may be the only one, but I can't work out with any confidence what JSON
> your query returns.
> My first assumption was that it would usually return only "found" or "not
> found".
>
> Can you give me a real example of a Restpark URI with 3 URIs and the JSON
> returned?
> You could add this to the web site.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 16 Apr 2013, at 18:52, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
> > I have recently created Restpark: http://lmatteis.github.io/restpark/
> >
> > It's my way of pushing a standard RESTful interface for accessing RDF
> data. Still in its very infancy but hopefully it can be something to
> consider. I personally think the Semantic Web community desperately needs a
> simpler protocol for querying RDF, along side SPARQL. I have nothing
> against SPARQL, it's an important standard to have. But something simpler
> and RESTful needs to be part of the Semantic Web stack.
> >
> > The entire web community is used to consuming APIs as simple HTTP
> requests (REST). Would you imagine GitHub, Flickr, or any other web-service
> API actually exposing SQL instead of their RESTful API? It would make
> things a bit more complicated for third-parties in my opinion, but more
> importantly it would make things so much more complicated for services to
> implement.
> >
> > I would love to think what the community thinks about this.
> >
> > Best,
> > Luca
>
>