Re: use case: content selection based on client profile

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:05:02PM +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
> 
> Looking through the profile, I wrote the query:
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> PREFIX prf: <http://www.wapforum.org/UAPROF/ccppschema-20000405#>
> ASK
>  { ?x rdf:type prf:HardwarePlatform .
>    ?x prf:ColorCapable "Yes" . }
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> which tests whether any #HardwarePlatform has a prf:ColorCapable value
> of "Yes"
> 
> On this date, this resulted in:
> 
> Ask => Yes          (Printed by the program running the query).
> 
> so writing a suitable function to do dc:HardwarePlatform:ColorCapable()
> looks possible by a query over the profile itself.  I presume that the
> server will have taken care of the profile diffs to produce an RDF model
> of the device.
> 
> 
> Looking at the profile, I see use of RDF bags.  Querying bags at the raw
> triple level is hard - RDF lists (collections) are harder still.  This
> suggest an explicit operation such as "member(?bag, ?x)" to access the
> contents.  But for an RDF list this seems to be fine-graingraph walking
> so has implementation issues.
> 
> I'd like to hear from people with RDF storage implementations as to know
> they deal with containers and collections.

In memory DB supports Algae's glob-style wildcards in predicates
(rdf:_*). It also had a function for finding members of collections,
but I think that's probably suffered some bitrot.

> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Dan Connolly <>
> > Date: 13 September 2004 18:21
> > 
> > Continuing the investigation of how DAWG relates to peer W3C
> > technologies, I have been chatting with Stephane about DIWG
> > stuff, and he sent me the attached use case. (forwarded
> > with permission).
> > 
> > We're likely to get more input from the DIWG soon, but meanwhile,
> > I thought this was interesting enough to talk about.
> > 
> > Anyone care to take a look, and, perhaps, suggest which requirements
> > it motivates? Any new ones?
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/UseCases#req
> > 
> > --
> > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

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