Re: Transforming Queries for Access Control

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Solid Community Group,
>
> Hello. I am pleased to share a recent idea involving the use of text
> templating for transforming or compressing queries, e.g., SPARQL and SQL
> queries, into more efficient representations more resembling remote
> procedure calls or actions [1].
>

We had a Solid Practitioners meeting devoted to search and indexing.
Several ideas were presented for a query interface.  You may be interested
in the minutes (
https://github.com/solid-contrib/practitioners/commit/94ddfba59f08316c261c82484da659f1785351bf)
or the video recording of the meeting (
https://spectra.video/w/rE4CGHB5Sr74gR6TA1Mccs).  You are also welcome to
come to a future meeting (first and third Thursdays of the month) to
present your work and brainstorm with others doing similar work.

-- 
Jeff Zucker
Facilitator, Solid Practitioners




>
> In this technique, actions’ “verbs” are URIs, or, more specifically, URLs
> from which to retrieve those templates with which to decompress the
> transmitted objects back into query languages. It is possible to process
> incoming queries using the compressed representations and also to obtain
> the intended full query-language representations.
>
> This technique should allow solutions like ODRL to describe queries, at
> least for those cases where the resultant “verbs” were well-known to, or
> recognized by, servers. Additionally, ODRL constraints could be placed on
> query actions’ arguments.
>
> Thank you for any feedback on these ideas.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Adam Sobieski
> *http://www.phoster.com <http://www.phoster.com>*
>
> [1] *https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/194
> <https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/194>*
>
>