SPARQL Beyond Subgraph Matching

Birte Glimm, Markus Krötzsch

SPARQL Beyond Subgraph Matching

Abstract. We extend the Semantic Web query language SPARQL by defining the semantics of SPARQL queries under the entailment regimes of RDF, RDFS, and OWL. The proposed extensions are part of the SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes working draft which is currently being developed as part of the W3C standardization process of SPARQL 1.1. We review the conditions that SPARQL imposes on such extensions, discuss the practical difficulties of this task, and explicate the design choices underlying our proposals. In addition, we include an overview of current implementations and their underlying techniques.

Published at ISWC2010 (Conference paper)

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Citation details

• Birte Glimm, Markus Krötzsch. SPARQL Beyond Subgraph Matching. In Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Yue Pan, Birte Glimm, Pascal Hitzler, Peter Mika, Jeff Pan, Ian Horrocks, eds.: Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 241–256. SpringerProperty "Publisher" has a restricted application area and cannot be used as annotation property by a user. 2010.

@inproceedings{GK10:SPARQLentailment,
    author   = {Birte Glimm and Markus Kr{\"o}tzsch},
    title    = {{SPARQL} Beyond Subgraph Matching},
    pages    = {241--256},
    crossref = {iswc10}
}
@proceedings{iswc10,
    editor    = {Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Yue Pan and Birte Glimm
                 and Pascal Hitzler and Peter Mika
                 and Jeff Pan and Ian Horrocks},
    title     = {Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web
                 Conference (ISWC'10)},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web
                 Conference (ISWC'10)},
    publisher = {Springer},
    series    = {LNCS},
    volume    = {6496},
    year      = {2010}
}

Topics

Description logics, Query languages, Semantic Web