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Synonyms

SPARQL 1.1; W3C Standard RDF Query Language

Glossary

BGP:

Basic Graph Pattern, a set of RDF triple “templates” where variables are allowed in either subject predicate or object position, which can be read as a conjunctive query

HTTP:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

OWL:

Web Ontology Language, a schema language on top of RDF, rooted in Description Logics

RDF Graph:

A set of RDF triples

RDF:

Resource Description Framework

RDFS:

RDF Schema, a lightweight ontology language on top of RDF

RIF:

Rule Interchange Format, a standard to encode and exchange rules

SPARQL Endpoint:

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

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:

Initially “Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language,” or nowadays more often referred to by the recursive acronym “SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query...

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank all members of the W3C SPARQL working group as well as various people who helped to improve the standard by their comments to public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org. A more detailed version of the examples provided herein can be found in the SPARQL 1.1 Overview document (SPARQL 1.1 Overview 2013).

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    Axel Polleres

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  3. Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

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Polleres, A. (2018). SPARQL. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_124

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