On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Claus Stadler <[email protected]> wrote: > For example: > "Show me projects, corresponding partners in France and their amount of > funding". Whats missing in SemMap is just adding UI elements that add > sorting and aggregation to the generated SPARQL query. (Yes, Freebase can do > that too). > > Now show me how you would do that with a REST API ;)
GET /projects?partners=fr&extrafields=funding HTTP/1.0 along with a form and supporting declarative metadata describing the relationship between the two pages in play (the form and the result page from submitting the form). More generally, I think an old blog post of mine about REST and SPARQL is still bang-on about why we haven't, and won't ever, see SPARQL endpoints being anything other than a niche offered either by those who can afford to run such a service, or published privately to partners; http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2006/08/sparql-useful-but-not-a-game-changer/ The economics of publication are just drastically different between exposing a RESTful interface, and exposing a query language. Mark.
