> At 11:55 11/11/03 -0500, Jim Hendler wrote: > >1 - I think there is a clear and present need in the RDF community for a > >way to essentially request a set of triples from a remote store -- > >essentially an RDF remote access API. [...] > > Yes! +1. In fact I'd be tempted to separate this need from the more general rule/query drive to get it moving quickly. I think a suitable approach would be to build on the existing RDF remote access API - that of RDF/XML+HTTP. A http GET will retrieve a model over the network based on a supplied URI. The RESTful continuation would start with a PUT to place it on the network, DELETE remove it. Onwards from there I suppose POSTs would be the adding of statements to an existing model. Selective deletion of statements could be done by a DELETE-PUT sequence, though for efficiency I guess the POST should be extended. Most of this so far is join-the-dots stuff, the (marginally) more complex interactions such as partial/filtered/query GETs and POSTs do need working out, though I think Joseki & Andy Seaborne's NetAPI work could inform choices. But I do think it important to keep this stuff RESTful, so the Semantic Web can grow healthily on top of the current web architecture. Cheers, Danny.Received on Monday, 17 November 2003 14:53:03 UTC
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