Introduction to RDF Query with SPARQL Tutorial

2005-05-10

Dave Beckett
Steve Harris
Eric Prud'hommeaux
Andy Seaborne
WWW 2005

http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/17Dec-sparql/

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Introduction

Tutorial Duration: 3 hours

Audience:

• People who know the existing RDF Data Query Language (RDQL)
• People who have played with RDF such as having seen FOAF files.
• People with a query background.

People who are new to RDF will need to read RDF background materials such as:

• RDF / Semantic Web background (WWW2003)
• RDF Primer

Tutorial Contents

• Administration and Schedule (5 mins) All
• Part 1: Introduction (40 mins) Dave
• Part 2: Core SPARQL: Graph Patterns (30 mins) Andy
• Break 15 mins
• Part 3: SPARQL Datasets and GRAPH (15 mins) Steve
• Part 4: SPARQL Result Forms and XML (30 mins) Eric
• Part 5: SPARQL Protocol (10 mins) Andy
  
• Part 6: Hands-on exercise (30 mins) Dave
• Q&A and Feedback (5 mins)

Downloads for running SPARQL queries

• ARQ 0.9.5 including Jena: ARQ-0.9.5.zip
• Java 1.4.2 or newer: J2SDK 1.4.2.

Web forms for running SPARQL queries

• SPARQLer with ARQ
• SPARQLing with Rasqal (includes XSLT service)
• W3C XSLT service (useful for turning the XML results format into html)
• asemantics (RDFStore)

Example Data and Queries

Part 2: Core SPARQL Data and Queries

In QueryLang1/

Part 6: Exercise Data

In data/

Further Reading

RDF query and SPARQL

• QL'98 - Query Languages 1998, W3C Workshop, 3 Dec 1998
• RDF Query Survey, 2001
• SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference, Dave Beckett, 21 April 2005
• Search RDF data with SPARQL, Philip McCarthy, IBM developerWorks, 10 May 2005.

RDF Data Access WG (DAWG) documents

• W3C RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements, edited by Kendall Grant Clark (University of Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory), W3C Working Draft, 12 October 2004.
• SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format, edited by Dave Beckett (University of Bristol), W3C Working Draft, 21 December 2004.
• SPARQL Protocol for RDF, edited by Kendall Grant Clark (University of Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory), W3C Working Draft 14 January 2005.
• SPARQL Query Language for RDF, edited by Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C), Andy Seaborne (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol), W3C Working Draft, 20 April 2005.

Copyright 2005 Dave Beckett, Steve Harris, Eric Prud'hommeaux and Andy Seaborne.

All the tutorial materials including slides, images, queries, data, results, and others may be reused and distributed without restriction as long as acknowledgement is given to the origin such as by a link to http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/17Dec-sparql/. Alternatively, the materials can be used under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 or any newer version:

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