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SPARQL

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Synonyms

SPARQL 1.1; W3C Standard RDF Query Language

Glossary

RDF:

Resource Description Framework

RDFS:

RDF Schema, a lightweight ontology language on top of RDF

Triple:

An atomic statement of the form (subject predicate object) in RDF

RDF Graph:

A set of RDF triples

W3C:

World Wide Web Consortium

W3C Recommendation:

Standards published by the W3C

SPARQL:

initially “Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language,” or nowadays more often referred to by the recursive acronym “SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language”; in its 1.1 version, SPARQL comprises not only a query language and a protocol but also a data manipulation language and other features

SPARQL Protocol:

defines how to invoke SPARQL queries and updates via a SPARQL endpoint and how results should be returned via HTTP

SPARQL Service:

Any implementation conforming to the SPARQL Protocol

SPARQL Endpoint:

The URI at which a SPARQL service listens for requests from clients

OWL:

Web Ontology Language, a schema language on top of RDF, rooted...

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Polleres, A. (2014). SPARQL. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_124

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