Re: need extar information in SPARQL [OK?]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:31 +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
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> Faisal.Alkhateeb@inrialpes.fr wrote:
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> > Hi everyone, 
> > 
> >       I am working in something that uses SPARQL, neverminde, so I read the 
> > SPARQL draft amd there are some points that I hope someone explain them to me. 

We're interested to know if you find the explanation below sufficient.

You might also consult mailing lists such as semantic-web@w3.org.

> >   I want to know how to construct the database because it is not clear as it 
> > contains default and named graphes? Do you have one database or many? when we 
> > have different databases, do I construct the merge? when we have different FROM 
> > and FROM NAMED we project the query in the merge of the databases or in each 
> > one at a time. How we construct the default and the named graphes and how we 
> > store them? 
> > 
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> The current SPARQL query language specification does not include any 
> fucntionality for loading RDF data into a persistent store.  You will need to 
> consult the documentation for the implementation you are using for how to do 
> that.  Many toolkits provide ways to load RDF data without needing to 
> understand the details of the persistent storage.
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> FROM and FROM NAMED describe the RDF dataset to be queried but don't enforce a 
> a fixed mechanism for creating or loading the graphs.
> 
> 	Andy
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