On 4/18/13 10:31 AM, Barry Norton wrote:
"REST is simpler than SPARQL"I have difficulty taking you seriously: SPARQL Graph Store Protocol is a great deal simpler and more RESTful than what you propose and the difference between that and something actually RESTful is complicated.Sorry, I have every sympathy for what Hugh said, but if you jump into a new thread title and make such statements you're going to provoke a response.
+1 Kingsley
Barry On 18/04/2013 15:26, Luca Matteis wrote:Guys, it's also about making things simpler. Sure SPARQL works and it's a great things to have. But we (Semantic Web community) should thrive for simplicity. And for this matter REST is simpler than SPARQL - that's just the way it is.On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Mark Baker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Claus Stadler <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
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