Re: Indirect Graph Identification

Has the group come to any agreement on this issue?

>From what I have seen, some think named graphs must be only be located
at the graph authority, others think incomplete named graphs can be
served from any services. Regardless, my point is that these same issues
are the same weather we talk about resource descriptions or named
graphs. Will the group consider addressing the broader issue of indirect
resource URI requests?

Thanks,
James

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 13:55 -0500, James Leigh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please consider using a more general, well-known, indirect graph
> identification[1] URI pattern.
> 
> The cases stated for requiring indirect graph identification are shared
> by the Linked Data community for indirect resource identification[2].
> Linked Data is often mirrored for the purposes of creating
> visualizations of the data, merging some or all of the data with data
> from other sources and/or enhancing responsiveness to queries.
> 
> For your convince, I have copied the indirect graph cases from
> rdf-update[1] below.
> 
>       * the naming authority associated with the URI of an RDF graph in
>         a Graph Store is not the same as the server managing the
>         identified RDF content
>       * the naming authority is not available
>       * the URI is not dereferencable (i.e., when dereferenced, it does
>         not produce a RDF graph representation)
> 
> Replacing "RDF graph" above with "RDF resource", the same cases are
> equally a challenge for managing RDF data in the Linked Data community.
> 
> I propose that this working group consider using a more general URI
> pattern that could be equally applied to both RDF graph storage and RDF
> resource resolution.
> 
> Such a general prefix should use a well known[3] path prefix to allow
> clients to infer the identified graph or resource without resolution.
> The request-URI below could be recognized by both clients and servers as
> identifying the graph with the identifier of
> "http://www.example.com/other/graph".
> 
>    GET /.well-known/alias;http%3A//www.example.com/other/graph HTTP/1.1
>    Host: example.com
>    Accept: application/rdf+xml
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/#indirect-graph-identification
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ledp2011_submission_10.pdf
> [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 16 January 2012 14:23:47 UTC