- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:35:55 +0300
- To: "ext Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
- Cc: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Mar 26, 2004, at 17:27, ext Seaborne, Andy wrote: > Patrick, > > I agree with you that there is a useage model that is around some kind > of > "get RDF about ..." operation - we have not convinced everyone of > this. The > important point is that the result is an RDF graph and part of the > knowledge > base, and that this is different from a result set (whether encoded in > RDF > or not). > > One of the requests I received in yesterday's telecon for the use case > "Find > the email address of "John Smith"[1] was for detailed explaination of > what > the results are used for. > > It could help me to understand "description" better if you could show > how > the software used the RDF. I think the "tell me about this web service" is a pretty good example that alot of folks should be able to directly relate to. It could perhaps be fleshed out with a few more concrete details, but the skinny is that the client needs to know a number of things about the service in order to interact with it, and the service description should provide all the information needed. Eh? Patrick > > Andy > > [1] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2004JanMar/ > 0187.html > > > > -------- Original Message -------- >> From: Patrick Stickler <> >> Date: 26 March 2004 08:29 >> >> A server recieves a request from a known user for some >> content and expects that it will need to optimize its response >> in terms of the preferences of the user (locality, language, >> level of competence, etc.). >> >> The server asks (the user client application, some knowledge base, >> some registry, whatever) "tell me about this user" and recieves a >> description of the user which enables it to decide how best to >> optimize >> its response in the most suitable form for the user. > > -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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