W3C First Public Working Draft for RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

FYI, released on Monday[1]:

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group has released an initial Working
Draft specification for RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements which
"outlines use cases for RDF query languages and access protocols and
their requirements, examining their design objectives." The Working
Draft has been produced as part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity.

The Use Cases and Requirements draft clarifies some of the objectives in
the W3C design of an RDF query language and data access protocol. "Each
use case describes a user-oriented context in which the RDF query
language or protocol or both are used to solve a real problem. The use
cases characterize some of the most important and most common
motivations behind the development of existing RDF query languages and
access protocols. The use cases, in turn, inform decisions about
requirements, that is, the critical features that a standard RDF query
language and data access protocol require, as well as design objectives
that are not on the critical path."

Sample use cases include: finding an email address; finding information
about motorcycle parts; finding unknown media objects; monitoring news
events; avoiding traffic jams; discovering what people say about news
stories; exploring the neighborhood; sharing vacation photos with a
friend; finding input and output documents for test cases.

[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-06-07-a.html

Joe

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Joseph Chiusano
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