- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:46:27 +0000
- To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
An application wants to query a remote system for RDF information about a resource with a URI X. It can offer hints of the kinds of things it understand(properties, other things) and wants back more RDF or compatible answers that it can try to interpret, some of which will be presented to the end user. The answer should be quick since the user is waiting for it, so it would be good if this was a single request and response. More specifically: The remote service is a thesaurus or RDF schema service on the web that knows how to represent or map between vocabularies and could return inter-term relationships or a "useful" part of a graph. The client is an end-user desktop application for cataloguing items for a digital library and the client app is constructing the user interface from the schemata information and searching for terms related to existing terms. [There might be another use case here related to free text] Dave
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