Thu Apr 10 10:58:23 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 Jena2-pre2 toolkit [7] distribution using the updated
RDQL EBNF grammar [8].

See also Squish RDF Query Test Cases [9] using the same formats.

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

results/*.n3 - test cases results in N3 expressed using [4] RDF/XML vocabulary

inputs/* - RDF/XML, N-Triples and N3 data for the queries

queries/* - triple-patterns queries expressed in RDQL native textual syntax [8]

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

Issues
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- bArcs support required into the native toolkit (**)
- value constraints


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://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/jena2/
[8] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/jena/jena2/doc/RDQL/rdql_grammar.html
[9] http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/tests/

Authors
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Alberto Reggiori <alberto@asemantics.com>
Andy Seaborne <Andy_Seaborne@hplb.hpl.hp.com>


------note added by Libby.miller@bristol.ac.uk 2003-05-13-----

generated n3 versions of simple conjuctive queries are in

queries/nt/

generated by 
rdql2ntriples.pl

Manifest-just-conjunctiveNT.rdf is a manifest file pointing only at 
conjunctive ntriples queries.
