- From: Dave Beckett <Dave.Beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:33:09 +0100
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>, Eric Miller <em@w3.org>
>>>>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:27:32 -0400, Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu> said: Jim> A few of us were discussing this at an e-gov Sem Web meeting Jim> today -- the idea emerged that the "QL" space (RDQL, RDFQL, Jim> etc.) has been largely covered, but we're chartered to do "Data Jim> Access" and the "DAL" space seems pretty open - we didn't hit Jim> anything great, one idea was RDAL (pronounced Riddle) - none of Jim> us liked it, but we all preferred it to BRQL -- anyway, I throw Jim> it out that something ending in DAL or using DA might be easier Jim> to find than something with QL... I've been thinking about this in the background. BRQL was just a strawman name - you got to call these things something. So time to summarise what I've got so far. We need two names for the language and the protocol that are related, and pronouncable, i.e not like RDQL / "arr dee queue ell" (en-uk) So I suggest: Data Access for RDF Query Language - DARQ (pronounced as "dark") Data Access for RDF Protocol - DARP of course, DARP*A* may like the latter :) I think RDAL/riddle would be confused with the somewhat related RDDL and GRDDL work. Dave
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