RE: SOAP, RDF and Semantic Web screenscraping...

Didier and Rahul (and everyone else),

By all means, let's collaborate on this API, either here on this list or on
a list on sourceforge once the registration goes through (within next 12
hours).

Redfoot is very modular and has (or will have, depending on the module in
question) separate modules for the triple store, serialization, local
querying and querying via SOAP. Each will have a published API so the
modules will be substitutable.

Probably best would be to discuss on a sourceforge list with regular updates
posted here for broader feedback.

James
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul Dave [mailto:rahul@reno.cis.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:12 PM
> To: martind@netfolder.com
> Cc: JTauber@bowstreet.com; Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk;
> www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: Re: SOAP, RDF and Semantic Web screenscraping...
> 
> 
> Can I "me too" on this? I'm working on a perl rdf-soap 
> implementation, adding a RDF
> interface to Everything(www.everydevel.com), which incidentally has
> an object model quite similar to RDF.
> Rahul
> I got this from you:
> > 
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > James said:
> > It's called Redfoot
> > and is basically an RDF store/viewer/editor framework in 
> Python that will
> > soon include support for peer-to-peer communication between 
> different stores
> > using SOAP.
> > 
> > Didier replies:
> > Will you publish the peer to peer exchange API before the 
> code? I am also
> > working on a store, having an RDF reply to a SOAP request. 
> Maybe we can
> > synch our API so that the stores can inter-operate and also 
> provide a good
> > demonstration of peer to peer data exchange. We thought of:
> > 
> > find (string topic) returns the RDF element for this 
> resource. For example,
> > the following call:
> > 
> > POST /device-profile HTTP/1.1
> > Host: www.priceline.com
> > Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
> > Content-Length: nnnn
> > SOAPAction: ""
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> > 	xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/SOAP/envelope/">
> > 	<SOAP-ENV:Body>
> > 	<XXX:find xmlns:TALVA="http://www.talva.com/schema/XXX">
> > 	    <resource>UP.Browser/3.01-IG01 UP.Link/3.2.3.4</resource>
> > 	</XXX:find>
> > 	</SOAP-ENV:Body>
> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> > 
> > ask for the RDF element associated to this resource and 
> return the following
> > reply:
> > 
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
> > Content-Length: nnnn
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> > 	xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/SOAP/envelope/">
> > 	<SOAP-ENV:Body>
> > 		<TALVA:GetDeviceProfile 
> xmlns:TALVA=http://www.talva.com/schema/cc-pp
> > 						    
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
> > 			<rdf:description 
> about="UP.Browser/3.01-IG01 UP.Link/3.2.3.4">
> > 				
> <up-uplink>up2.upl.sprintpcs.com</up-uplink>
> > 				<fax-accepts>none</fax-accepts>
> > 				<fax-limit>0</fax-limit>
> > 				<soft-key-size>5</soft-key-size>
> > 				<is-color>0</is-color>
> > 				<charset>us-ascii</charset>
> > 				<screen-chars>24,9</screen-chars>
> > 				<screen-pixels>120,127</screen-pixels>
> > 				<screen-depth>1</screen-depth>
> > 				<max-pdu05d4></max-pdu>
> > 			</rdf:description>
> > 		</TALVA: GetDeviceProfile >
> > 	</SOAP-ENV:Body>
> > </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> > 
> > You have probably recognized here the CC/PP stuff. A peer 
> to peer network
> > could be useful to resolve a resource capability request. 
> Now that you have
> > the context, what are your ideas on the info exchange API 
> between stores. we
> > may try to create a chain of stores containing capability 
> record with the
> > following algorithm
> > 
> > a) the client request for a capability record,
> > b) the server does not have it and ask to a linked store for it
> > c) and so forth until one gets it, return the RDF record to 
> the previous
> > calling store... and so forth until the first requested 
> store gets it and
> > reply to the client with an RDF element.
> > 
> > Your ideas?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Didier PH Martin
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Email: martind@netfolder.com
> > Conferences: xml devconf 2000 (http://www.xmldevconf2000.com)
> > Book: XML Professional (http://www.wrox.com)
> > column: Style Matters (http://www.xml.com)
> > 
> > 
>

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