[Xesam] SPARQL approved by W3C

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

On 17/01/2008, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

Yeah, I saw it on /. I just knew that you'd get your kicks :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel