Luca, I've put together an alternative Linked Data server specification, which uses URI templates combined with SPIN SPARQL query templates and executes on a SPARQL-enabled triplestore: https://github.com/Graphity/graphity-ldp/wiki/Linked-Data-server-specification
Maybe you'll find some familiar concepts in it. Martynas graphity.org On Apr 17, 2013 5:11 PM, "Luca Matteis" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have realized that Restpark might be duplication of an idea that is > already the Linked Data Platform itself. > > Just a very basic question: with Linked Data how do I find all of the > instances within DBpedia (for example) of type > http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Actor? This query would be answered with: > ?actor a dbpedia:Actor - but is this possible using simply the Linked Data > facilities (without SPARQL say)? I know I could dump all of DBpedia's data > and analyze it to find all actors, but there must be an easier way no? > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Tim Haynes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 16 April 2013 18:52, Luca Matteis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Would you imagine GitHub, Flickr, or any other web-service API actually >>> exposing SQL instead of their RESTful API? >> >> >> <stirring> >> Well, yes... if you're considering the encapsulation of a complex query >> language in a CGI parameter, then look at YQL[1] (looks like SQL) and >> Freebase[2] (filters-in-JSON). >> </stirring> >> >> [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ >> [2] http://www.freebase.com/query <http://www.freebase.com/query?> >> >> ~Tim >> -- >> Tim Haynes >> Product Development Consultant >> OpenLink Software >> <http://www.openlinksw.com/> >> <http://twitter.com/openlink> >> > >
