Querying the Web Reconsidered: Design Principles for Versatile Web Query Languages

François Bry, Christoph Koch, Tim Furche, Sebastian Schaffert, Liviu Badea and Sacha Berger
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François Bry: University of Munich, Germany
Christoph Koch: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Tim Furche: University of Munich, Germany
Sebastian Schaffert: University of Munich, Germany
Liviu Badea: Nat. Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
Sacha Berger: University of Munich, Germany

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 2005, vol. 1, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: A decade of experience with research proposals as well as standardized query languages for the conventional Web and the recent emergence of query languages for the Semantic Web call for a reconsideration of design principles for Web and Semantic Web query languages. This chapter first argues that a new generation of versatile Web query languages is needed for solving the challenges posed by the changing Web: We call versatile those query languages able to cope with both Web and Semantic Web data expressed in any (Web or Semantic Web) markup language. This chapter further suggests that well-known referential transparency and novel answer-closedness are essential features of versatile query languages. Indeed, they allow queries to be considered like forms and answers like form-fillings in the spirit of the query-by-example paradigm. This chapter finally suggests that the decentralized and heterogeneous nature of the Web requires incomplete data specifications (or incomplete queries) and incomplete data selections (or incomplete answers); the form-like query can be specified without precise knowledge of the queried data, and answers can be restricted to contain only an excerpt of the queried data.

Date: 2005
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