Re: Comment re SPARQL 1.1 Service Description

Leigh,

> What would be available from /.well-known/sparql?

A very good and valid question.

> The response from the well-known URI boot-straps us into a hypermedia
> format in which we can follow links.

+1

> This could be specified as a separate small spec, not requiring any
> specific changes to the SD document.

Here you've lost me. Why should that be in a separate doc?

Cheers,
      Michael

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> From: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:30:37 +0100
> To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
> Cc: <public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org>, Daniel Schwabe
> <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>
> Subject: Re: Comment re SPARQL 1.1 Service Description
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What would be available from /.well-known/sparql?
> 
> RFC 5785 says the URI should return metadata. This isn't completely
> incompatible with also deploying the SPARQL endpoint to that location,
> but doesn't seem quite right to me.
> 
> For example a domain may have several SPARQL endpoints, e.g. for
> several datasets or with different policies, capabilities or access
> control settings, so assuming a single Service Description seems
> brittle.
> 
> Perhaps the response should be a document that links to available
> SPARQL endpoints, from which the Service Descriptions can be
> retrieved. This can just reuse the terms from the SD vocabulary:
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> <rdf:RDF
>    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>    xmlns:sd="http://www.w3.org/ns/sparql-service-description#">
>   <sd:Service>
>     <sd:url rdf:resource="http://www.example/sparql/"/>
>     ....
>   </sd:Service>
> </rdf:RDF>
> 
> The response from the well-known URI boot-straps us into a hypermedia
> format in which we can follow links.
> 
> This could be specified as a separate small spec, not requiring any
> specific changes to the SD document.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> L.
> 
> On 3 June 2010 10:53, Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear SPARQL WG,
>> 
>> I reviewed the SPARQL 1.1 Service Description W3C Working Draft 1 June 2010
>> [1] - great job so far.
>> 
>> Not sure if this is already on your radar, but in order to ensure a wide
>> uptake concerning end-point discovery, I propose to register a well-known
>> URI as per RFC5785 [2], i.e. to add the following to the SPARQL 1.1 Service
>> Description document:
>> 
>> ===
>> 5. Well-Known URI Registration
>> 
>> URI suffix:  sparql
>> 
>> Change controller:  W3C.
>> 
>> Specification document(s):  This document.
>> ===
>> 
>> This registry is quite new (as well as the RFC defining it) and I so far
>> failed to figure what suffixes have been registered already. Nevertheless, I
>> think it would tremendously help and hope that this is the right place to do
>> it. If not, please let me know and I'll explore alternatives.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>      Michael
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-service-description-20100601/
>> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785#section-5.1
>> 
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>> Ireland, Europe
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