Re: Distributed querying on the semantic web

On Apr 22, 2004, at 11:02, ext Phil Dawes wrote:

>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Patrick Stickler writes:
>>
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2004, at 14:48, ext Phil Dawes wrote:
>>
>>> The main problem with Patrick's concise-bounded-description idea from
>>> this respect is how to find references to a term.
>>>
>
> Snip  [...]
>
>>
>> This has nothing to do with the definition of concise bounded
>> descriptions
>> (which simply define a particular kind of RDF sub-graph focused on a
>> particular resource).
>>
>> URIQA does not attempt to provide a general query language/solution, 
>> but
>> is expected to work in harmony with any number of general query
>> solutions
>> (such as is the focus of the RDF Data Access Working Group).
>>
>> Thus, there is no "problem" with not providing functionality that was
>> never intended to be provided.
>
> Apologies if this wasn't clear, but my mail was intended to mean 'the
> problem with using URIQA from the perspective of using it for
> open-ended queries'. (hence the 'from this respect' bit)
>
> I didn't mean to imply that there was a problem with URIQA from the
> perspective of its intended goals - sorry for that.
>

Fair enough. I expected as much, but wanted to make the clarification 
for
the sake of those not familiar with URIQA...

Cheers,

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
patrick.stickler@nokia.com

Received on Thursday, 22 April 2004 05:20:33 UTC