Welcome to SPARQL
“Today, the World Wide Web Consortium made it easier to share and reuse data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries with the publication of three new Semantic Web standards for SPARQL (pronounced ’sparkle’). SPARQL is the query language for the Semantic Web (see Semantic Web use cases). SPARQL queries hide the details of data management, which lowers costs and increases robustness of data integration on the Web. ‘Trying to use the Semantic Web without SPARQL is like trying to use a relational database without SQL,’ explained Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. There are already 14 implementations of the standard, which is comprised of three W3C Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, and SPARQL Query Results XML Format. Read the press release, testimonials and learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.”
A fuller press release is available here.
As our very own Ian Davis noted in his testimonial,
“Talis is delighted to see the publication of the SPARQL Recommendations. We believe that this is an important milestone in making the Semantic Web usable for a broad class of applications in the enterprise. The Talis Semantic Web Platform provides its users with services using the SPARQL query language and protocol to allow searching of their data. We look forward to SPARQL being incorporated in many more applications enabling Web-scale integration of data between and within organisations.”
Welcome to the world, SPARQL!
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