Re: Use case: give me useful stuff about X

Dave, this appears to be equivalent to the use case I just sent
titled "PS-3: Third-Party Knowledge Discovery; query by known identity"
(wish I had read your's first, otherwise I wouldn't have sent mine).

Patrick


On Mar 17, 2004, at 22:46, ext Dave Beckett wrote:

>
>
> 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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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
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