Re: SPARQL, philosophy n'stuff..

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Claus Stadler
<cstadler@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> For example:
> "Show me projects, corresponding partners in France and their amount of
> funding". Whats missing in SemMap is just adding UI elements that add
> sorting and aggregation to the generated SPARQL query. (Yes, Freebase can do
> that too).
>
> Now show me how you would do that with a REST API ;)

GET /projects?partners=fr&extrafields=funding HTTP/1.0

along with a form and supporting declarative metadata describing the
relationship between the two pages in play (the form and the result
page from submitting the form).

More generally, I think an old blog post of mine about REST and SPARQL
is still bang-on about why we haven't, and won't ever, see SPARQL
endpoints being anything other than a niche offered either by those
who can afford to run such a service, or published privately to
partners;

http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2006/08/sparql-useful-but-not-a-game-changer/

The economics of publication are just drastically different between
exposing a RESTful interface, and exposing a query language.

Mark.

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