Hi Martin et al I have just learned about this submission to Museums and the Web. The authors make the following statement:
"Last but not least, another problem of formulating queries is SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language). Most favored by information technology (IT) experts, it has transferred the old relational paradigm onto the graph structure of the Semantic Web, creating an incredibly complex system, even for specialists. In our applications, no IT expert was able to verify that a SPARQL query of the kind we present in this paper will yield the results intended by a domain expert simply by reading it." * * A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks - Museums and the Web 2012 http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/papers/a_new_framework_for_querying_semantic_networks I find this to be a misleading statement by the authors since SPARQL is the recommendation by W3C to query RDF data. Would you not recommend SPARQL to museum practitioners to query RDF data? Regards, Marco --- Marco Neumann KONA Join us at SemTech Biz in San Francisco June 3-7 2012 and save 15% with the lotico community discount code 'STMN' http://www.lotico.com/evt/SemTechSF2012/
