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Who recommends setting up an SPARQL endpoint? #13

Open bencomp opened 1 year ago

bencomp commented 1 year ago

I don't think SPARQL endpoints are the best way to publish LOD. Of course they can be helpful, but they have downsides too. I would like to prevent a default association between "publishing LOD" and "running a SPARQL endpoint for your data".

bencomp commented 1 year ago

SPARQL endpoints are not the same as triple stores. Triple stores often include a SPARQL endpoint, but you could have an endpoint that internally queries a different data store.

As was explained in module 2, SPARQL queries can be executed at a SPARQL endpoint. An endpoint is essentially a web application on which you can access an institution’s RDF data.

Module 2 did not literally mention 'executing' SPARQL queries. And again: beware making too strong the association between SPARQL and publishing.