Re: SPARQL Protocol

[Dave Beckett <dajobe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:33:18 +0100, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> fyi, Kendall Grant Clark's been putting this together for the W3C Data
> Access Working Group: "...a protocol for accessing RDF data and for
> conveying RDF queries from query clients to query processors".
> 
> http://monkeyfist.com/kendall/sparql-protocol/
> 
> Used with RSS 1.0, it could fulfil a similar role as that envisaged
> for the Atom Protocol.
> 
> [[
> The SPARQL Abstract Protocol is made up of seven orthogonal
> operations: query, getGraph, getOptions, makeGraph, dropGraph,
> addTriples, and deleteTriples.
> ]]
> 
> Its HTTP binding appears to make good use of the available verbs.
> 
> (The Sparql query language itself is at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/ )

Let's set some expectations here.  Kendall's doc is 1 day old
and a proposal that the RDF data access working group has yet to read
through, review or see if it likes it.  I've yet to read it myself (a skim says
it looks good). I'd be really happy if this was well aligned with the
atom-protocol work which I'm tracking for this reason.

Dave