Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies: SPARQL Usage in Practice

SPARQL Usage in Practice

Locally, i.e., bound to a programming environment like RDFLib or Jena
- details of binding to a programming language is language dependent
Remotely, i.e., over the network
- this usage is very important: there is growing number of RDF depositories…
- separate documents define the protocol and the result format
  - SPARQL Protocol for RDF
  - SPARQL Results XML Format
- return is in XML: can be fed, e.g., into XSLT for direct display
- people may use RDF only through SPARQ
  - without knowing about RDF/XML, for example…
There lots of SPARQL implementations already!