- From: Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:31:16 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <517003B4.7090509@ontotext.com>
"REST is simpler than SPARQL" I have difficulty taking you seriously: SPARQL Graph Store Protocol is a great deal simpler and more RESTful than what you propose and the difference between that and something actually RESTful is complicated. Sorry, I have every sympathy for what Hugh said, but if you jump into a new thread title and make such statements you're going to provoke a response. Barry On 18/04/2013 15:26, Luca Matteis wrote: > 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 > <mailto:distobj@acm.org>> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Claus Stadler > <cstadler@informatik.uni-leipzig.de > <mailto: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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