Re: SPARQL Protocol for RDF - what is the "S"?

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.

Received on Thursday, 2 June 2005 02:48:15 UTC