Hi Juan, > This has been my concern from day one! And day one from me was when I > attended the Publishing Linked Data tutorial [1] at ISWC2008! It wasn't clear > to me what you could do with Linked Data, for a web developer perspective. > However, then I saw the Semantic Web Client Library [2] and then it hit me: > Linked Data makes the web appear as one giant database. This is when Olaf > Hartig and I started talking and we created SQUIN [3]. The motivation was > that there isn't an easy way to query the existing Linked Data on the web. > This opened a new problem that has never been faced before (query > execution on a web of linked data), which Olaf has started to tackle [4] and > so are we.
So after your work on SQUIN, what is your conclusion? Does the distributed querying approach work well enough that you can imagine a developer building an application/website using it? An application for users who have no appreciation for the underlying technology at all and hence no tolerance for hickups cause by it? Cheers, Georgi
