On 17/01/2008, Evgeny Egorochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A relevant bit of news: > > http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2008/01/15/sparql_is_a_recommendation > > "Today, the World Wide Web Consortium made it easier to share and reuse data > across application, enterprise, and community boundaries with the publication > of three new Semantic Web standards for SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"). SPARQL > is the query language for the Semantic Web (see Semantic Web use cases). > SPARQL queries hide the details of data management, which lowers costs and > increases robustness of data integration on the Web. "Trying to use the > Semantic Web without SPARQL is like trying to use a relational database > without SQL," explained Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. There are already 14 > implementations of the standard, which is comprised of three W3C > Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, and > SPARQL Query Results XML Format." > > It seems that semantic web technologies are not the pie in the sky they used > to look like :)
Yeah, I saw it on /. I just knew that you'd get your kicks :-) Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
