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A Transformation Language for RDF Based on SPARQL

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Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2015)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 246))

Abstract

XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. Despite its 16 years long life, the RDF Semantic Web language still waits its transformation language. Some propositions have been done, relying on and extending XSLT, but none of them became widely used. In this paper, we present a radically new transformation language for RDF, called STTL. It enables to transform RDF into RDF as well as any other text format. The originality and power of STTL is that it is based on SPARQL. We designed it as a lightweight extension to SPARQL and we compile it into standard SPARQL. We present a generic transformation rule engine implementing STTL and several RDF transformers we defined for various output languages, showing STTL’s expressive power.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Category:Tool.

  2. 2.

    http://rdf.greggkellogg.net/distiller.

  3. 3.

    http://rdf-translator.appspot.com/.

  4. 4.

    http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/.

  5. 5.

    Named in reference to XSLT xsl:apply-templates.

  6. 6.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#sparqlGrammar.

  7. 7.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#sparqlAlgebraEval.

  8. 8.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#aggregateAlgebra.

  9. 9.

    http://wimmics.inria.fr/corese.

  10. 10.

    http://ns.inria.fr/sparql-template.

  11. 11.

    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/result-set.

  12. 12.

    http://corese.inria.fr.

  13. 13.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer.

  14. 14.

    http://ns.inria.fr/sparql-template/owl.

  15. 15.

    http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/.

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Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Fabien Gandon (Inria) for enlighting discussions on the nature of SPARQL-based transformations for RDF, Fuqi Song (Inria), Alban Gaignard (CNRS) and Eric Toguem (U. of Yaoundé, Cameroun) for the set up of the Web server.

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  1. Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Olivier Corby

  2. Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, I3S, Nice, France

    Catherine Faron-Zucker

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  1. University of Paris, Paris, France

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  2. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Vest-Agder Fylke, Norway

    Tim A. Majchrzak

  4. Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Corby, O., Faron-Zucker, C. (2016). A Transformation Language for RDF Based on SPARQL. In: Monfort, V., Krempels, KH., Majchrzak, T.A., Turk, Ž. (eds) Web Information Systems and Technologies. WEBIST 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30996-5_16

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