- From: NMP-MSW/Tampere <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:09:36 +0200
- To: "ext Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Cc: "Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org>, "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-rules@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Monday, Nov 17, 2003, at 21:44 Europe/Helsinki, ext Danny Ayers wrote: > > >> 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 agree that query should be addressed separately from rules (and I'm not convinced that we're ready to begin the standardization process for rules just yet, but that's another discussion entirely...) > 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. I consider this far too coarse grained to be efficient and generally useful (note the important qualification 'generally'). A given model might be *huge*. GETting and PUTting entire models seems to me to be a corner case, and not what most folks really need/want to do. Let's please separate issues relating to knowledge management from those relating to knowledge discovery. What the SW needs acutely, IMO, is a lightweight, efficient, intuitive and easy to implement solution for knowledge discovery. C.f. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2003Nov/0115.html Cheers, Patrick
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