- From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:16:47 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Andy, (finding this exchange amusing and educational) >Someone recently asked this about "ARQ" and ARQ >has always been just > "ARQ". It does not stand for anything. just a little I know: QL stands for Query Language (sql = structured query language) the only letter in the acronym not accounted for so far from what I read is A structured protocol a rdf querly language On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote: > > > On 06/10/11 13:21, Lee Feigenbaum wrote: >> >> On 10/6/2011 7:50 AM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote: >>> >>> Dear list, >>> please clarify. I really hate not being able to answer simple questions. >>> Here are the inconsistencies I found: >>> >>> *S*PARQL *P*rotocol *a*nd *R*DF *Q*uery *L*anguage >>> from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL >>> (No authorative reference for the acronym found though) >> >> This is correct. > > Yes ... > > but you shouldn't believe eveything on wikipedia because ... > >> >>> *S*imple *P*rotocol *a*nd *R*DF *Q*uery *L*anguage >>> from Jeffrey Pollock. Semantic Web for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons Inc., >>> Chichester, West >>> Sussex, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. >> >> I'm not sure where this came from. > > This is also correct - in fact, it's more correct! > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2004JulSep/0500.html > > This is the form originally selected by DAWG, the working group at the time. > (DAWG = Data Access Working Group, or in full RDF Data Access Working > Group). > > I don't recall a decision to change it to "SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query > Language"; that evolved in DAWG over time. > > Personally, I think of it a > > (Simple Protocol) and RDF Query Language > > and don't have any problem with the "Simple" part. > > But nowadays, in practice, SPARQL is SPARQL. > > Andy > > PS Someone recently asked this about "ARQ" and ARQ has always been just > "ARQ". It does not stand for anything. > >>> *SPA*RQL *Q*uery *L*anguage for *R*DF >>> from http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/ >> >> This is specifically the name of the query part of SPARQL. It's not what >> the acronym stands for. >> >>> *S*PARQL *P*rotocol for *R*DF >>> from http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-protocol/ >> >> This is specifically the name of the protocol part of SPARQL. It's not >> what the acronym stands for. >> >>> What is the best and most recent document I should reference in an >>> academic paper? >> >> This I can't help you with, unfortunately. >> >> Lee >> >>> All the best, >>> Sebastian >>> >>> -- >>> Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann >>> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig >>> Projects:http://nlp2rdf.org ,http://dbpedia.org >>> Homepage:http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann >>> Research Group:http://aksw.org >>> >> > >
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