RE: RDF Queries?

I am not familiar with CORBA or OMG so if you don't mind, I have
a couple of simple questions: 

	Is the query service intended to be similar to SQL?

	Are the functions get_child_values() and get_descendent_values()
	the primary methods for traversing a graph?

Thanks.

Franklin Reynolds
NRC/Boston

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT Arnold deVos [mailto:adv@langdale.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 8:35 PM
> To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Cc: franklin.reynolds@nokia.com
> Subject: Re: RDF Queries?
> 
> 
> > I am working on a query language for RDF. I was wondering if
> > anyone else in this group is interested in this sort of thing
> > or if anyone can suggest pointers to related work?
> 
> You may be interested in our work at the OMG.  The following 
> submission
> proposes a CORBA interface for querying RDF information:
> 
 http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?utility/99-08-01

The main elements of this are:

- CORBA interface for queries against RDF-model oriented data
- CORBA encoding for resource descriptions (query results)
- use of RDF-schema for the meta-data

Admitedly, only the latter feature involves XML and RDF-syntax, so this is
probably not exactly what you had in mind.  But the rest is all RDF-model
based and so you may be interested in the choices we made in the query
design.

---
Arnold deVos
Langdale Consultants
adv@langdale.com.au

(If you have any trouble accessing the above resource, let me know.)

Received on Thursday, 7 October 1999 11:57:17 UTC