The Leibnitz Information Centre for Economics of the German National Library of Economics (the world’s largest economics library) has provided a W3C Semantic Web Case Study on the Web based publication of the STW Thesaurus for Economics of the library. … Continue reading
The SPARQL working group recently held its first two-day face-to-face (F2F) meeting, co-located in Cambridge, MA, USA and in Bristol, UK. The F2F marked the culmination of the first phase of the group’s work, in which members worked to identify … Continue reading
The SPARQL Working Group has started up and is beginning its work by gathering potential features to extend the SPARQL language, protocol, results format, and/or general SPARQL landscape. We invite all members of the community to suggest features/extensions to SPARQL … Continue reading
The W3C SPARQL Working Group (formerly known as RDF Data Access Working Group) has now been re-chartered. Quoting from the charter (available publicly): The mission of the SPARQL Working Group [...] is to produce a W3C Recommendation that extends SPARQL. … Continue reading
The “SPARQL Update” document has been published as a W3C member submission, co-authored by experts of Hewlett-Packard, Freie Universität, DERI Galway, Oracle, Talis, Garlik, OpenLink, INRIA, Computas, and Semsol. The document describes an update language for RDF graphs. It uses … Continue reading
W3C Team has published new versions of the RDF N3 and the RDF Turtle serialization formats, co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly for the former, and David Beckett and Tim Berners-Lee for the latter. The new versions also eliminate … Continue reading
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium made it easier to share and reuse data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries with the publication of three new Semantic Web standards for SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”). SPARQL is the query language for the … Continue reading
The RDF Data Access Working Group has published three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Query Results XML Format, and SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The first specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language … Continue reading
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SPARQL Query Results XML Format to Candidate Recommendation. With this format, SPARQL variable binding and boolean results can be expressed in XML.
The RDF Data Access Working Group has updated the Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON Working Group Note. The only change is the removal of two attributes (ordered and distinct), to make the JSON format compatible with the SPARQL Query … Continue reading