RE: ZING : Implementing SRW

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Alison Stevenson wrote:

> > Could you go into some more detail about this?  How would one
> > define a
> > query using a URL?
>
> In the ARTISTE system all query items are described by RDF schemas, either published by external standards bodies (e.g. the Dublin Core schema at http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces) or written as part of ARTISTE (e.g. the Artiste Core  at http://artiste.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk/rdf/ArtisteCore.rdf). Each metadata attribute therefore has a URI
> 	e.g.   http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dces#title
>
> Queries are composed using the metadata RDF URIs, and subsequently
> translated to SQL at each site using a mapping which relates these
> metadata RDF URIs to individual database table and field names.

This is interesting.

Are you intending to return triples from a triple store, or these items to
be serialized before returning them?


Sigge

Received on Monday, 29 April 2002 03:48:12 UTC