The SPARQL interface is great, but it would be nice if dbpedia provided
a few shortcuts for some simple operations which shouldn't need complex
requests to handle. In particular, what I'd like to see would be:

1. A page that I can post a great big list of dbpedia resource URIs to
and get back an N-Triples file containing just dbprop:redirect triples
for any of those URLs which is a redirect. This would provide a quick
and easy way of fixing my references to dbpedia.

2. A request for <http://dbpedia.org/depiction/%s> should run the
following SPARQL query (or equivalent):

        SELECT ?depiction
        WHERE { 
          <http://dbpedia.org/resource/%s>
            <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/depiction>
              ?depiction
        }

If no results are found, it should return a 404, but if a result is
found, perform a 302 redirect to the depiction found.

-Toby


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