TAP: Towards a Web of Data

R.V.Guha
IBM Research, Almaden
guha @ us.ibm.com
Rob McCool
KSL, Stanford University
robm @ ksl.stanford.edu

Appendix

Here are the SOAP messages associated with the examples of GetData presented in the paper.

Example: GetData(<Yo-Yo Ma>, birthplace) => <Paris>

Request
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <a:GetData>
      <rdf:Resource rdf:about="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/MusicianMa,_Yo-Yo"/>
      <tap:birthplace/>
    </a:GetData>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Response
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <a:Data>
      <tap:Musician rdf:ID="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/MusicianMa,_Yo-Yo">
        <tap:birthplace>
          <tap:City rdf:ID="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/CityParis,_France">
            <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Paris</rdfs:label>
          </tap:City>
        </tap:birthplace>
      </tap:Musician>
    </a:Data>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


Example: GetData(<Paris>, temperature) => 57 F

Request
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <a:GetData>
      <tap:City rdf:about=""http://tap.stanford.edu/data/">CityParis,_France"/>
      <tap:temperature/>
    </a:GetData>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Response
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <a:Data>
      <tap:City rdf:about="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/CityParis,_France">
        <tap:temperature>57 F</tap:temperature>
      </tap:City>
    </a:Data>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


Example: GetData(<Paris>, locatedIn) => <France>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <a:GetData>
      <tap:City rdf:resource="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/CityParis,_France"/>
      <tap:locatedIn/>
    </a:GetData>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Response
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/"
    xmlns:cdnow="http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/cdnow.cgi/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <a:Data>
      <tap:City rdf:ID="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/CityParis,_France">
        <tap:locatedIn>
          <tap:Country rdf:ID="http://tap.stanford.edu/data/CountryFrance">
            <tap:longFormName>French Republic</tap:longFormName>
            <tap:placeLetterCode>FR</tap:placeLetterCode>
            <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">France</rdfs:label>
            <tap:adjective>French</tap:adjective>
          </tap:Country>
        </tap:locatedIn>
      </tap:City>
    </a:Data>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>