> The big thing that LDP adds is its container model.
>
> Andy
Yes. This is hugely useful, if it meets your use cases. It allows for a lot of automatic management for an important class of relationships.
https://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/#ldpc
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A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library
> On Mar 4, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Andy Seaborne <***@apache.org> wrote:
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>
>
> On 04/03/17 11:27, Jean-Marc Vanel wrote:
>> 2017-03-04 12:08 GMT+01:00 Laura Morales <***@mail.com>:
>>
>>> What problem is a "Linked Data Platform" trying to solve that can't
>>> already be accomplished with a RDF server like Fuseki?
>>
>> Consider this use case:
>>
>> - manage a team's public FOAF profiles with URL prefix http://xx.com/
>> - a team member X can upload her FOAF profile simply by an HTTP POST
>> request on http://xx.com/members/ at URL /myName
>> - then http://xx.com/myName is visible from Internet and contains
>> triples about <http://xx.com/myName> , which is the member's URI.
>>
>>
>> If I'm correct also Fuseki has a REST front end available.
>
> Yes - it supports the SPARQL Graph Store Protocol.
>
> PUT/GET/POST/DELETE whole graphs.
>
> ... and it generalises it to the dataset+quads as well.
>
>>>
>>
>> Well the word REST used in
>> https://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/ is simply meaning that
>> a SPARQL compliant HTTP server can be somehow considered a REST server.
>>
>> But it's not what is generally meant by a REST server:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
>> In this REST concept , one PUTs or POSTs data at some relative URL's, and
>> by HTP GET at the same URL retrieves the data.
>>
>> This is what an LDP server basically does.
>> An LDP server also can be viewed as similar to an FTP server that typically
>> stores RDF data (but also any binary data).
>
> The big thing that LDP adds is its container model.
>
> Andy
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2017 at 11:48 AM
>>>> From: "Jean-Marc Vanel" <***@gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Jena users" <***@jena.apache.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: Fuseki vs Marmotta
>>>>
>>>> Apache Fuseki is a pure SPARQL server, with a native triple database.
>>>>
>>>> Apache Marmotta is a complex beast, primarily an LDP server [1] , but it
>>>> mixes a lot of ingredients:
>>>> http://marmotta.apache.org/platform/index.html
>>>>
>>>> Its persistence layer is only SQL databases.
>>>> It does offer a SPARQL service, but it seems loosely connected to the
>>> other
>>>> modules.
>>>> Especially, I'm not sure that after an LDP PUT or POST, the data will be
>>>> added to the underlying SPARQL database.
>>>>
>>>> [1] LDP https://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/
>>>
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