More cool SPARQL+AJAX stuff

From Christoph Görn: A little query form for some SIOC. The cool thing is that results are displayed instantly while you type. (Try typing the names of some Planet RDF authors, e.g. “Tim” or “Dan”.) Who says that RDF stuff has to be slow? OK, it’s just a toy dataset, but I still like it.

The Javascript-powered UI queries the backend server over SPARQL. The server is ARC, which seems to be a great choice for quick-and-dirty SPARQL endpoints on commodity PHP/MySQL webspace (SPARQL endpoint recipe from Benjamin Nowack here).

SPARQL and AJAX are a killer combination.

2 Responses to “More cool SPARQL+AJAX stuff”

  1. B:\datenbrei Says:

    dowhatimean!…

    Abs. right, the super-minimalistic sioc browser (this AJAX/SPARQL things) is fast and dirtier than a hack should be. It’s just to test out how AJAX and SPARQL may interact (as you have mentioned) as a killer combo for the semantic web. PS: CaptSo…

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