- From: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:15:39 -0400
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- CC: SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 9/14/2010 5:11 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote: > From work in the UK Government Linked Data Project, there is discussion > of sending around changes to graphs. Part of this is to include > information to describe the change. > > One way is to use TriG files as bundles of graphs. Another is to use > SPARQL Update but SPARQL Update is missing the ability to include meta > data about the update request, or even link to meta about the request. > > Comments have traditionally been one way to do this but having a > standard machine accessible way would be useful. > > Proposal: > > Add to the SPARQL Update format: > > META { ... } > > where an operation can go. All the META in a request are accumulated > into a single graph (or dataset?). This RDF is just carried with the > request and does not affect the execution. > > The contents of the META are grammar rule "TriplesBlock" without > variables (or "Quads" without variables if it's a dataset.) > > Linking could be as simple as > > META { <> rdfs:seeAlso <http://example/other> } > > The choice of the word META was just taken from the style of HTML and RDFa. This is not totally unlike: http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Feature:Pragmas right? I'm hesitant to add something new at this point, though I think it is useful. Lee > Andy
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