Re: SPARQL, philosophy n'stuff..

Guys, it's also about making things simpler. Sure SPARQL works and it's a
great things to have. But we (Semantic Web community) should thrive for
simplicity. And for this matter REST is simpler than SPARQL - that's just
the way it is.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>