Re: review of rq23 1.377

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:22:12PM +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote:

> Protocol And RDF Query Language (SPARQL) [I think the acronym for
> >the query language and protocol shouldn't be overloaded in this document 
> >to refer to the query language alone. It's potentially confusing and bad 
> >marketing to boot.] for easy access to RDF stores. It is designed to 
> >meet the requirements and design objectives described in RDF Data Access 
> >Use Cases and Requirements <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-dawg-uc/>
> 
> There isn't a separe name for the query language.  It already says "query 
> language part of".

Then there should be. But "SPARQL query language" works fine for me. I use
"SPARQL protocol" in the protocol doc. I guess I should use "SPARQL" like
you do, then maybe the confusion will be more obvious?

All over the DAWG page we say "SPARQL query language" rather than just
"SPARQL", because that would confuse people.

(And, further on, it says "The simplest graph pattern is the triple
patterns" now: I think you mean s/patterns/pattern/?)

> >Later sections of this document describe how other graph patterns can be 
> >built using the graph operators |OPTIONAL <#optionals>| and |UNION 
> ><#alternatives>|,; how they may be grouped <#GroupPatterns> together; 
> >and also how queries can extract information from more than one graph 
> ><#queryDataset>; and how It is also possible to restrict the values 
> >allowed in matching a pattern.
> 
> Kept the last part as-is because it emphaises the combination of triples 
> patterns.

FWIW, it should be semicolons separating these phrases, or commas, but not a
mixture of both.

> Kept as is : To me, "consumer" is no better than "client" or "application" 
> (we don't talk about "producers").

Well, it's shorter (which counts) and it covers both "clients" and
"applications". What's the difference between a client and an application?
And there's no rule that says if you use "consumer" you have to use
"producer". But, fine, this was only a suggestion, after all. ;>

Thanks for the response, Andy.

Kendall Clark

Received on Friday, 10 June 2005 12:44:44 UTC