Hi Juan, Nice stuff. I hate to pick up on something from interesting stuff like this, but: "which executes queries over the whole Web of linked data and, hence, enables applications to access the whole Web as if it is a single database". I don't think so. It doesn't do "the whole Web of linked data", never mind the whole Web. Best Hugh
On 25/04/2009 19:58, "Juan Sequeda" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Everybody Great seeing a lot of you at WWW in Madrid. After the exciting BOF that we organized, I felt determined to actually create an application that consumes Linked Data. So while today everybody was leaving, Olaf Hartig and I spent the afternoon hacking together a consuming linked data application with SQUIN [1], which executes queries over the whole Web of linked data and, hence, enables applications to access the whole Web as if it is a single database. We used a SQUIN PHP wrapper[2], which allows a PHP developer to send SPARQL queries in a SQUIN service, and gets the results back. The demo [3] consists of mashing up data about the artist Lily Allen from BBC Music, DBPedia, FlickrWrapper and Freebase. More to come later... [1] http://www.squin.org [2] http://squin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squin/PHPTools/ [3] http://researchersmap.informatik.hu-berlin.de/music.php Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com <http://www.juansequeda.com> www.semanticwebaustin.org <http://www.semanticwebaustin.org>
