- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:48:40 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-rww@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhLoAbj8pUrFgbLzVcGtOaVL07_JSb0AFTtOt01DVDo-pg@mail.gmail.com>
On 11 January 2013 22:25, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/13 3:53 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
>>
>> we still dont know what webfinger is, and it may be a long time before
>> anyone finds out
>>
>
> It's a profile discovery protocol, of the "simply simple" variety,
> targeted at Web 2.0 community.
>
>
>> It's equivalent to a SPARQL query of the form "SELECT * from { <subject>
>> $key $value }"
>>
>
> DESCRIBE ?EntityID
> FROM
> <DataSpace> .
>
> OR
>
> SELECT *
> FROM <DataSpace> {
> {<EntityID> ?Attribute ?Value .}
> UNION
> {?Value ?Attribute <EntityID>. }
> }
>
Thanks Kinsley! "web ninjas use SPARQL" :)
Webfinger can do the FORWARD lookup
{<EntityID> ?Attribute ?Value .}
But is unable to do the REV lookup:
{?Value ?Attribute <EntityID>. }
The workaround for this involves trying to create a new URI scheme, acct:
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>
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