Tue May 13 13:04:17 CEST 2003

What is it?
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This is distribution contains a bunch of RDF Query Test Cases for the RDF Data Query Langauge (RDQL) [1][2]
using the proposed RDF Query Test Cases manifest [3] and Recording Query Results [4] formats. The distribution
aims to support the ad hoc work on RDF Query (and Rule) Testcase [5], to build a publicly avialable test cases
repository for RDF tool developers using the RDQL langauge. Conversions to other RDF Query language syntaxes is
possible using Libby Miller's tool [6].

The distribution contains the RDQL tests as distributed into the RDFStore toolkit [7]

See also Squish RDF Query Test Cases [8] using the same formats.

Details of the distribution
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Manifest.rdf - manifest describing RDQL test cases accordingly to [3]

results/* - test cases results in RDF/XML and N-Triples expressed using [4] RDF/XML vocabulary

inputs/* - RDF/XML data for the queries

queries/*.rdfstore - triple-patterns queries expressed in RDQL native textual syntax
queries/*.nt - N-Triples versions of simple conjuctive queries

copyright-software-20021231.html - W3C Copyright License file

Issues
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- bArcs support required into the native toolkit (**)
- value constraints
- free-text operators and other meaty extensions

References
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[1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/rdql.html
[2] http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/afs/Papers/ISWC%202002%20-%20SquishQL.pdf
[3] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdfqr-tests/rdf-query-testcases.html
[4] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdfqr-tests/recording-query-results.html
[5] http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdfqr-tests/
[6] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/2003/03/query/
[7] http://rdfstore.sourceforge.net/downloads/snap.tgz
[8] http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/tests/

Authors
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Alberto Reggiori <alberto@asemantics.com>
