Re: tests and inference?

Thompson, Bryan B. wrote:
> Based on my current understanding, the client is not able to either be
> informed concering what inferences the server may draw, nor is able to
> constrain what kinds of inference the server may perform.

Not within the query language itself.

For the description of capabilities:

Such information could be recorded in RDF in a service description.  This would 
seem to be the way to get any information relating to the service made available 
- assert some RDF facts.

Like RDF assertions about any document - we (DAWG) don't need to provide a 
mechanism to find, publish, change, sign, ... such information as it can be a 
regular RDF graph somewhere.

For the constraining of queries:

Different services would offer different capabilities.  I think the spectrum of 
possibilities is wide enough that there is no fixed set we could define now and 
be useful - implementations don't fall into a neat set of a few classes of 
functionality.

	Andy

>  Given this,
> how can SPARQL tests be written that could be used to demonstrate (non-)
> conformance by SPARQL processors that perform inference?
> 
> -bryan
>

Received on Thursday, 16 December 2004 12:59:26 UTC