- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 21:26:59 -0600
- To: RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
- CC: <barstow@w3.org>, Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
At the RDF IG F2F there was some discussion about ways to move pure triples around from parser to parser. Some of us decided the best way to do it would be to have a set of reified statements, like so: <rdf:RDF ...> <rdf:Statement> <rdf:subject rdf:resource="..." /> <rdf:predicate rdf:resource="..." /> <rdf:object rdf:resource="..." /> </rdf:Statement> ... </rdf:RDF> This format can be both parsed as RDF and as plain XML, so it's very simple. As a demonstration of this, I have put up an web service that will take a URI, run it through SiRPAC and stick out a bunch of triples: http://purl.org/swag/rdf2triples?url=(url-goes-here) I'd love to see others put up similar interfaces to their parsers. (Eric dares you to. ;-)) The idea is that then we can begin to build cross-parser apps on top of this. For example, the SiRPAC servlet could offer a choice between various parsers, and Dave Beckett's parser test suite could run itself. Another application in the back of my mind is using this for signing sets of triples. The major problem with this however is some way of ordering the statements. Anyway, some food for thought. -- Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>| SWAG: Semantic Web Agreement Group <http://www.aaronsw.com> | <http://purl.org/swag/> AIM: JediOfPi | ICQ: 33158237| helping build the next web
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