RE: RDF Queries?

Eric Prud'hommeaux and Dan Brickley - eric@w3.org and danbri@w3.org - ha ve
been working on querying. I believe they have an implementation, but I don't
have a pointer to it - eric will be in later.

Charles McCN

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 franklin.reynolds@nokia.com wrote:

  Thanks for the pointer to the W3C Query workshop. 
  I have a copy of the proceedings and checked out
  most of the work that seemed relavant before
  I began.
  
  I also checked out a couple of schema based query languages
  such as OQL. These did quite suit my needs.
  
  I ended up doing something tuned to matching patterns
  in a labeled, directed graph (RDF's fundamental data
  model). Any pointers to graph based query languages
  would be especially appreactiated.
  
  Franklin  
  
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: EXT Daniel Lipkin [mailto:DLipkin@Saba.com]
  > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 1:19 PM
  > To: 'franklin.reynolds@nokia.com'; www-rdf-interest@w3.org
  > Subject: RE: RDF Queries?
  > 
  > 
  > Franklin,
  > 
  > I would start by looking at some of the papers from last 
  > year's W3C Query
  > Languages Workshop.
  > 
  > IBM's proposal for RDF Query is the most concrete, although even it is
  > pretty sketchy; it is
  > more focused on giving examples than providing a formal definition:
  > 
  > http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/rdfquery.html
  > 
  > RDF Query is very close to the set of functionality in which 
  > I'm interested,
  > but 
  > unfortunately I haven't seen any implementations yet.
  > 
  > There is also a lot of interest in using RDF as the basis for 
  > an inference
  > engine:
  > 
  http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/queryservice.html
  http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/enabling.html
  
  The W3C has just announced the formation of an XML Query Working Group
  (http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity.html#role), but I suspect this group will
  initially be focused on a general XML query language.
  
  -Daniel
  
  Daniel Lipkin
  Senior Architect
  Saba
  650-581-2577
  dlipkin@saba.com  
  
  
  -----Original Message-----
  From: franklin.reynolds@nokia.com [mailto:franklin.reynolds@nokia.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:51 AM
  To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
  Subject: 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?
  
  Franklin Reynolds
  NRC/Boston
  

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