Re: Use case: Find the email address of "John Smith"

I support this use case.

Patrick


On Mar 25, 2004, at 22:37, ext Seaborne, Andy wrote:

>
>
> == Task
>
> A user wants to send an email message to a person whose name is "John
> Smith". The user has a personal address book in RDF in a file that 
> contains
> all the information needed. The address book uses the FOAF vocabulary 
> [1].
>
> The user's email client queries their address book and fills in the 
> result
> in the "To:" field, if there is a single match, otherwise it shows 
> there are
> sevaerl options and allows the user to select one.
>
> == Importance of DAWG
>
> A query is more efficient in terms of application programmer time than
> writing custom code to a lower level interface.  The resulting 
> execution can
> be more efficient because an application might choose a simple way of 
> doing
> it where as a toolkit can invest in optimization.
>
> Applications that use the DAWG rec. can be switched from a local 
> personal,
> address book to a query to an LDAP server which makes its information
> available as if it were an RDF graph with no change to the application
> other than pointing it to a different source.
>
> If the query is issued to a remote data source then a way of 
> serialising one
> or more operations requests is needed.  A query language is one way of
> providing this.
>
> Information sources that use the DAWG rec. can be accessed by a wider 
> set of
> applications with no extra work.
>
> == Other
>
> The query has two parts - locate the resource and extract some 
> information
> from that resource.  The presentation of the results is the mailbox 
> email
> address.  As people may have several mailboxes, there can be multiple
> results even if the conceptual task is to find one.
>
> The resource for the person could be a bnode or a labelled resource.
>
> An example query:
>
> SELECT ?mbox
> WHERE
>   (?x foaf:name "John Smith")
>   (?x foaf:mbox ?mbox)
> USING
>   foaf  FOR <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
>
> -------
>
> [1] http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
>     FOAF namespace document
>
>

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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
patrick.stickler@nokia.com

Received on Friday, 26 March 2004 04:25:33 UTC