Interacting with RDF data
Mining the Web of Linked Data with RapidMiner
Lots of data from different domains is published as Linked Open Data. While there are quite a few browsers for that data, as well as [...]
SPARQL FAQs
This set of FAQs was written before SPARQL 1.1, making it obsolete for practical purposes. However, its treatment of topics such as how SPARQL deals [...]
Querying Datasets on the Web with High Availability
As the Web of Data is growing at an ever increasing speed, the lack of reliable query solutions for live public data becomes apparent. SPARQL [...]
Installing Virtuoso
Detailed instructions for installing Virtuoso, which the W3C describes as "a SQL-ORDBMS and Web Application Server hybrid (aka Universal Sever) that provides SQL, XML, and [...]
SPARQL in 11 minutes
This video serves as an introduction to the W3C query language for RDF, SPARQL. Before explaining SPARQL queries themselves, a brief discussion of Linked Data [...]
Probing the SPARQL endpoint of data.gov.uk
In this blog post, the authors use a series of SPARQL queries to probe the content in the UK's data.gov. The techniques demonstrated can be [...]
Toward the Web of Functions: Interoperable High-Order Functions in SPARQL
This video addresses the problem needing to know the specific URI of any third-party custom SPARQL function in order for the computation to be executed [...]
Creating and Using Ontologies
Discussion of what ontologies are (and are not) and how to build them in two primary stages: 1) Requirements analysis and 2) Conceptualization. Each primary [...]
Semantic Web Languages and Standards
This lecture covers a lot of ground- from very basic to quite advanced. It begins by attempting to define the Semantic Web and explain its [...]
Ontologies and Databases
Briefly discusses what an ontology is before focusing on querying a database via an ontology. Fairly dismissive of the Semantic Web as a pipe dream- [...]