Forthcoming SPARQL tutorial
by Bijan Parsia
I’ve been invited to give a two hour SPARQL tutorial/lecture at the European Reasoning Web 2006 Summer School (which has no specific web page, though there is a Reasoning Web one and a Reasoning Web 2005 page. I was late on my first deliverable (abstract + outline for my chapter version of the lecture). I’m a little worried since there’s a lot of overlap with another lecture (on RDF querying in general). There are two rules and ontologies lectures as well. Maybe one is advanced? Be nice if they had an RDF/OWL overview in common so we all didn’t repeat it.
Here are the abstract (I hate writing abstracts) and outline (which I imagine will change) I’ve sent to them:
Abstract: SPARQL is a query language and protocol which together support “remote access” of information published on the Web in RDF related languages (RDF and OWL). We discuss the background, syntax, and semantics of the SPARQL query language and explore how SPARQL is to RDF and OWL what HTTP and URIs were to HTML: that is, critical to making the Semantic Web as active as the Web itself.
- SPARQL Background
- (W3C) Semantic Web Languages: RDF, OWL, RIF
- Why a protocol?
- SPARQL and the Semantic Web
- SPARQL Query Concepts, Syntax, and Use
- Terms and data constructs
- Triple and Graph Patterns
- Pattern operators
- Datasets (Background and Named Graphs)
- Filters and functions
- Query forms and results
- SPARQL Query Semantics
- Query answers and the semantics of the dataset
- Rigid BNodes and answer minimization
- The algebra
- The very idea of a virtual graph
- Future Directions
- Filling out the protocol
- Aggregates, update, and federation
- SPARQL and Web 2.0
(I don’t know what it was, but it was way hard to format this outline.)
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December 23rd, 2005 at 1:43 pm
In the future directions bit, are you considering saying anything about SADDLE? (Which was, for those not following along at home, the initiated-then-abandoned service description language DAWG played around with.)
I think there’s some chance that SADDLE will be on DAWG’s plate if or when there’s a rechartering.
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:43 pm
In the future directions bit, are you considering saying anything about SADDLE? (Which was, for those not following along at home, the initiated-then-abandoned service description language DAWG played around with.)
I think there’s some chance that SADDLE will be on DAWG’s plate if or when there’s a rechartering.
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:43 pm
In the future directions bit, are you considering saying anything about SADDLE? (Which was, for those not following along at home, the initiated-then-abandoned service description language DAWG played around with.)
I think there’s some chance that SADDLE will be on DAWG’s plate if or when there’s a rechartering.
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:44 pm
(erp… in case it’s not clear admin == Kendall. :)
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:44 pm
(erp… in case it’s not clear admin == Kendall. :)
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:44 pm
(erp… in case it’s not clear admin == Kendall. :)
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:39 pm
Dude, get a better login in name.
I hadn’t planned to say anything about SADDLE, but given there is another query language tutorial, I might shift more to the protocol. I think the query language is easier to academe about, so I have a preference in that direction.
If something picks up twixt now and the school (I have materials due in like Feb and/or May) or you have some ideas on what to cover, I’d be happy to include it.
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:39 pm
Dude, get a better login in name.
I hadn’t planned to say anything about SADDLE, but given there is another query language tutorial, I might shift more to the protocol. I think the query language is easier to academe about, so I have a preference in that direction.
If something picks up twixt now and the school (I have materials due in like Feb and/or May) or you have some ideas on what to cover, I’d be happy to include it.
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:39 pm
Dude, get a better login in name.
I hadn’t planned to say anything about SADDLE, but given there is another query language tutorial, I might shift more to the protocol. I think the query language is easier to academe about, so I have a preference in that direction.
If something picks up twixt now and the school (I have materials due in like Feb and/or May) or you have some ideas on what to cover, I’d be happy to include it.
December 24th, 2005 at 5:43 am
In the future directions bit, are you considering saying anything about SADDLE? (Which was, for those not following along at home, the initiated-then-abandoned service description language DAWG played around with.)
I think there’s some chance that SADDLE will be on DAWG’s plate if or when there’s a rechartering.
December 24th, 2005 at 5:44 am
(erp… in case it’s not clear admin == Kendall. :)
December 24th, 2005 at 6:39 am
Dude, get a better login in name.
I hadn’t planned to say anything about SADDLE, but given there is another query language tutorial, I might shift more to the protocol. I think the query language is easier to academe about, so I have a preference in that direction.
If something picks up twixt now and the school (I have materials due in like Feb and/or May) or you have some ideas on what to cover, I’d be happy to include it.
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