- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:47:59 -0400
- To: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
- Cc: "Kara Warburton" <KARA@CA.IBM.COM>, <public-sws-ig@w3.org>
On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > I suspect it standards for Semantic. Your suspicion yields a falsehood. The original proposal (by Dave Beckett): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2004JulSep/ 0500.html was "Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language" But that was revised, again by Dave, and then accepted by the working group: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2004OctDec/ 0453.html to "SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language" And, if you check his journal entry about it: http://journal.dajobe.org/journal/archives/2004_12.html#001755 """I was pleased that the W3C RDF Data Access WG (DAWG) agreed (minutes yet to appear) to my proposal to finally decide the meaning of the name SPARQL being used for the query language and protocol we're making. This re-defines my initial naming so now SPARQL stands for: SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language Lovely! I was inspired by GNU and that era of hacker naming.""" I.e., http://www.gnu.org/ For more on recursive acronyms: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/recursive-acronym.html http://www.wordspy.com/words/recursiveacronym.asp ( I love TIARA) (Note that VISA, as in VISA cards, is a recursive acronym) http://www.anvari.org/fun/Computer/ Recursive_Acronym_or_Self_Referral_Acronyms.html And folks, it's just for fun and it's just a name :) Cheers, Bijan.
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