Re: Queriable End Point Descriptions

On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Steve Harris wrote:

> On 11 Aug 2009, at 16:22, Orri Erling wrote:
>
>> For example, a triple of the form <end-point-uri>  
>> sparql:hasVoidGraph <uri-of-void-graph> .  would indicate that  
>> specifying <uri-of-void-graph> as a graph of a query would give  
>> VOID content describing a graph available at this end point.
>
> That would also address the problem of multiple endpoints on one  
> store, as it allows the description to be explicit about what graph  
> should be queried. As long as the security model didn't present  
> different graph sets at different endpoints.
>
> One thing I don't like though is the VOID specificity, I'd like to  
> see any discovery mechanism be schema neutral.


My SD vocab proposal includes a datasetDescription property for just  
such neutral descriptions. I imagine it could be used along with a  
rdf:type statement on the pointed-to dataset in the SD so that you  
could sort out which was the VoiD description before going to retrieve  
it.

http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Feature:ServiceDescriptions#Strawman_Proposal_for_Service_Description_Vocabulary_and_URIs

.greg

Received on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:44:04 UTC