Re: Discovering a query endpoint associated with a given Linked Data resource

On 2015-08-26 10:45, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a standard or widely used way of discovering a query endpoint
> (SPARQL/LDF) associated with a given Linked Data resource?
>
> I know that a client can use the "follow your nose" and related link
> traversal approaches such as [1], but if I wonder if it is possible to
> have a hybrid approach in which the dereferenceable Linked Data
> resources that optionally advertise query endpoint(s) in a standard way
> so that the clients can perform queries on related data.
>
> To clarify the use case a bit, when a client dereferences a resource URI
> it gets a set of triples (an RDF graph) [2].  In some cases, it might be
> possible that the returned graph could be a subgraph of a named graph /
> default graph of an RDF dataset. The client wants to discover if a query
> endpoint that exposes the relevant dataset, if one is available.
>
> For example, something like the following using the "search" link
> relation [3].
>
> ------
> HEAD /resource/Sri_Lanka
> Host: http://dbpedia.org
> ------
> 200 OK
> Link: <http://dbpedia.org/sparql>; rel="search"; type="sparql",
> <http://fragments.dbpedia.org/2014/en#dataset>; rel="search"; type="ldf"
> ... other headers ...
> ------
>
> Best Regards,
> Nandana
>
> [1]
> http://swsa.semanticweb.org/sites/g/files/g524521/f/201507/DissertationOlafHartig_0.pdf
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-rdf11-concepts-20140225/#section-rdf-graph
> [3] http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml

Sort of. See void:sparqlEndpoint and /.well-known/void

-Sarven
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Received on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 08:56:47 UTC