[Xesam] SPARQL approved by W3C

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

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 :)

Cheers guys!

-- Evgeny