Hi Marco, As Sebastian says, we have to use SPARQL. However, just because it is the W3C standard doesn't mean you can't criticise it. However, just like with SQL we are all looking at ways to help museum practitioners (does this include our curators undertaking digital research projects) explore data effectively, transparently and with reproducibility, and making use of the technology with something additional to the SPARQL Endpoint (this lack of additional tools perhaps explaining lack of take up).
The ICOM statement, "Alternative Proposal for an ICOM-CIDOC Resolution on URIs for Museum Objects / Linked Open Data", is more high level statement and the statement that we are currently being asked to agree. It doesn't mention SPARQL. Best, Dominic Dominic Oldman Deputy Head of IS IS Development Manager ResearchSpace Principal Investigator British Museum +44 (0)20 73238796 +44 (0)7980 865309 www.BritishMuseum.org www.ResearchSpace.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Neumann Sent: 24 May 2012 10:04 To: crm-sig Subject: [Crm-sig] problem of formulating queries is SPARQL it has transferred the old relational paradigm onto the graph structure? 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_queryi ng_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/ _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
