SPARQL 1.1 Service Description

Abstract

This document describes SPARQL Service Descriptions, a method for discovering and vocabulary for describing SPARQL services made available via the SPARQL Protocol. Such descriptions are intended to provide a mechanism by which a client or end user can discover information about the SPARQL implementation/service such as supported extension functions and details about the available dataset.

Status of this document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This is the First Public Working Draft of the "SPARQL 1.1 Service Description" specification for review by W3C members and other interested parties.

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GET /sparql/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:31:12 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 DAV/1.0.3
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/rdf+xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:RDF
   xmlns:ex="http://example/"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:scovo="http://purl.org/NET/scovo#"
   xmlns:sd="http://www.w3.org/ns/sparql-service-description#"
   xmlns:void="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#">
  <sd:Service>
    <sd:url rdf:resource="http://www.example/sparql/"/>
    <sd:extensionFunction>
      <sd:ScalarFunction rdf:about="java:com.ldodds.sparql.Distance"/>
    </sd:extensionFunction>
    <sd:datasetDescription>
      <rdf:Description>
        <ex:defaultGraph>
          <void:Dataset rdf:about="http://www.example/default-graph/">
            <void:statItem>
              <rdf:Description>
                <scovo:dimension rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#numberOfTriples"/>
                <rdf:value rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer">100</rdf:value>
              </rdf:Description>
            </void:statItem>
          </void:Dataset>
        </ex:defaultGraph>
        <ex:namedGraph>
          <void:Dataset rdf:about="http://www.example/named-graph/">
            <void:statItem>
              <rdf:Description>
                <scovo:dimension rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#numberOfTriples"/>
                <rdf:value rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer">2000</rdf:value>
              </rdf:Description>
            </void:statItem>
          </void:Dataset>
        </ex:namedGraph>
      </rdf:Description>
    </sd:datasetDescription>
  </sd:Service>
</rdf:RDF>

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