- From: Seaborne, Andy <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 20:19:28 +0100
- To: "'Kendall Clark'" <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Kendall, I don't see this as needing to go in the candidate requirements. It doesn't seem to be a top level requirement to me. Maybe I was just assuming it would happen. I see the requirements list as the the most important ones. Was there a reason behind wanting it in the list that means it is significant enough? Do other people see that this is above the cut line for this document? Andy -------- Original Message -------- > From: public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org <> > Date: 06 May 2004 18:53 > > Requirement > ----------- > It should be possible to query the RDFS structure of an RDF > graph to find, for example, the parents and instances of a class or the > class tree. > > Discussion > ---------- > I'm not sure whether this comes down, in the end, to a > semantic requirement or just a request for sugar for a > particular kind of query; but what my users need (and we have > implemented in a really ugly, API munging way) is the ability > to ask for all the instances of a class, all the parents of a > class, and so on. Being able to do these queries, and being > able to do them "easily" (yes, I know, untestable, but > still...) is a real requirement for us. > > The DIG Description Logic Interface ASK language is, more or > less, what we'd like to have. See <http://dl-web.man.ac.uk/dig/>. Best, Kendall Clark
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