Sparql News & Articles

Researchers with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have thrown themselves head over heels into the semantic web. At this year's 8th International Semantic Web Conference, they presented a paper (download the PDF) focused on the problem of automatically generating the metadata that many semantic web functionalities rely on. 

Talking about RDF closures can cause eyelids to flutter, but the RPI folks aren't living in some theoretical world. They've been digging hard into large, public data sets and have learned some important lessons about making data more useful. Come join us for a closer look.

Oh the semantic web. Such romantic and lofty notions are conjured up at even its mere mention. And now, how it sparkles so. I refer, of course, to SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”) the new query technology released by the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3).

Here’s an opportunity to contribute to the shape of linguistic history in the Web world. The fine folk of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) inform us that the RDF Data Access Working Group is conducting its third Last Call Working Draft (take a breath) for SPARQL Query Language for RDF. Unless you’re banking on a fourth Last Call, get involved and quickly to cement your opinion on the mutable ‘net.