Understands that a SPARQL query matches an RDF graph against a pattern of triples with fixed and variable values.
Linked Data Query Processing: Source Selection Strategies
These slides represent the third of a five-part tutorial presentation given at the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013). For the execution of [...]
The Berlin SPARQL Benchmark
This article introduces the Berlin SPARQL Benchmark (BSBM) for comparing the performance of native RDF stores with the performance of SPARQL-to-SQL rewriters across architectures. The [...]
The Profile Manager and the Resource Description Framework
This documentation from the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) provides basic information on the RDF Data Model and how it is used by the the Profile [...]
RDF Database Systems: Triples Storage and SPARQL Query Processing
Available in print or EBook, this resource professes to "distill everything you need to know to effectively use or design an RDF database". This book [...]
Using SPARQL with RDFS and OWL Entailment
This chapter accompanied the lecture on SPARQL with entailment regimes given at the 7th Reasoning Web Summer School in Galway, Ireland, 2011. It first introduces [...]
Querying Semantic Web Data with SPARQL (and SPARQL 1.1)
This lengthy slide presentation covers SPARQL 1.1. It begins with the fundamentals: graph patterns, operators, and algebraic representations. The second half dives deeply into complex [...]
Querying Semantic Data
After this tutorial, you should be able to: Build your own basic SPARQL queries, step-by-step; Understand that SPARQL is not just a query language, it [...]
0 to 60 on SPARQL queries in 50 minutes
This links to the PDF version of Ethan Gruber's webinar, which provides an introduction to SPARQL, a query language for RDF. Users will gain hands-on [...]
Querying Linked Data
This slide presentation looks in detail at SPARQL and introduces approaches for querying and updating semantic data. It covers SPARQL algebra and protocol, and also [...]
SPARQL: Querying the Web of Data
This slide-set aims to introduce the RDF query language SPARQL "from a user's perspective". This presentation predates the introduction of SPARQL 1.1, but may still [...]