On 24 May 2012, at 10:04, Marco Neumann wrote:
> > 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." * I think you could use exactly the same language about SQL. Neither SQL nor SPARQL will be easy to write, or even intuitively readable, by a non-IT person. Both need wrapping up in some other interface for real users, but both perform a hugely valuable task in providing interoperable query specifications. Sebastian Rahtz
