SPARQL Demonstration and Tutorial

Vancouver programmer Luke McCarthy will be providing a tutorial on SPARQL that will appeal to those interested in big data, database languages and semantic web technologies.

RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language for data description that is the basis of the Semantic Web. RDF imagines data as a graph in which individuals (nodes) are related to each other by way of predicates (edges). This graph can be interrogated using the SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language, which allows the user to specify combinations of required and optional graph patterns. This tutorial will introduce SPARQL as a means to query local and remote RDF data, with concrete examples provided using the platform-independent ARQ toolkit. Query federation among multiple data sources will also be discussed, with concrete examples provided using SWObjects.

When:

2012-02-29 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

More Info:

http://www.meetup.com/The-Vancouver-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/50408872/

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