Other stores is a good news. Do you have any particular stores in mind or is
it going to use SPARQL/UPDATE or something?
I think several people voiced their interest in SMW scaling and
incorporating into a more standard chain of tools.
But besides that, I believe that incorporating features already available
withing MW instance (through SMW extension) into API is a good idea in
general - otherwise people will use screen scraping ;)
Sergey
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Markus Krötzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Freitag, 14. März 2008, Andreas Wombacher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know whether there is somebody now working on an ask
> > api. I need such an api and if there is no one working on it would
> > consider doing it myself.
> > If you are already working on it, is there maybe a possibility to get a
> > pre-view ;-)
>
> We are not directly working on that, but we are progressing with the
> optional
> support for RDF/OWL stores to be used with SMW. And those stores do
> already
> have various APIs that one might use (for querying, webservices based on
> the
> SPARQL query language and result format are usually available).
>
> We also have considered direct support for "remote ask" but did not find
> time
> to do it yet. This would need some idea on how to best encode results of
> such
> a format. Some XML format is used in SPARQL, but they have only at most
> one
> value per "table cell" whereas #ask has a list in each table cell. One
> could
> also make an XML container based on a simple RDF-encoding, or just use
> some
> ad hoc XML as seems useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
> >
> > Sergey Chernyshev wrote:
> > > No, actually, API is there for a while already, I'm using it on 1.11and
> > > I think it was available even before that.
> > > In any case, aiming at older (much older) version of MediaWiki is not
> a
> > > very good idea - SMW itself require MediaWiki 1.11
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Greenman, Ronald (NIH/CIT) [C]
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> > >
> > > The problem with that API is that extending it cleanly requires
> > > MediaWiki 1.12. However, MediaWiki also has an AJAX framework
> that's
> > > been around for a lot longer and allows for clean extensions in
> > > older versions (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Ajax). I've
> > > been considering experimenting with this route.
> > >
> > > Beecher Greenman
> > > NIH Contractor (SRA)
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > *From:* Sergey Chernyshev
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:21 PM
> > > *To:* Andreas Wombacher
> > > *Cc:* semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > <mailto:semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > *Subject:* Re: [SMW-devel] semantic wiki query AJAX api
> > >
> > > I'm interested in this feature too. Actually I was researching
> > > MediaWiki API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) and it seams to
> be
> > > quite simple to extend for ask query implementation.
> > >
> > > Sergey
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 12, 2008 6:45 AM, Andreas Wombacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am wondering whether there is an API for building richer
> > > clients using
> > > semantic annotations of the wiki via an XML RPC or REST or any
> > > other kind of API which copuld be facilitated using AJAX?
> > >
> > > best regards
> > > Andreas
> > >
> > >
> > >
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