URIs within URIs

• From: Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:44:54 +0200
• To: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CALp38ENqzsmHVV8BxrBt4iVOcPdiS3-iAt2t1k4Bf02zr9ggsw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LOD community,

I'm wondering whether there has been any research regarding the idea
of having URIs contain an actual URI, that would then resolve
information about what the linked dataset states about the input URI.

Example:

http://foo.com/alice -> returns data about what foo.com has regarding alice

http://bar.com/endpoint?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffoo.com%2Falice -> doesn't
just resolve the alice URI above, but returns what bar.com wants to
say about the alice URI

For that matter http://bar.com/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffoo.com%2Falice could return:

<http://bar.com/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffoo.com%2Falice> a void:Dataset .
<http://foo.com/alice> <#some> <#data> .

I know SPARQL endpoints already have this functionality, but was
wondering whether any formal research was done towards this direction
rather than a full-blown SPARQL endpoint.

The reason I'm looking for this sort of thing is because I simply need
to ask certain third-party datasets whether they have data about a URI
(inbound links).

Best,
Luca

Received on Friday, 22 August 2014 15:45:21 UTC