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Making RDF easy enough for most developers
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Idea: Build powerful query engines #33

Open dbooth-boston opened 5 years ago

dbooth-boston commented 5 years ago

"build powerful query engines such that app developers do not need to write HTTP requests (every data access should be a query, read or write)" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2018Dec/0009.html

dbooth-boston commented 5 years ago

From Ruben Verborgh:

The usage of such query engines is best illustrated here: https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/#interfaces-become-queries-p-5

In essense, by not binding applications to concrete (but inevitable changing) HTTP requests, we bind them to queries, which declarative indicate the data operation. These queries are then translated at runtime into concrete requests.

An example of such an engine is Comunica: http://query.linkeddatafragments.org/

It decomposes a query into HTTP requests, depending on the capabilities of the servers it talks to.

ktk commented 5 years ago

Base for that exists in Comunica