Sparql Handbook

This handbook is the first introduction to someone learning the new query language called SPARQL. The book includes numerous real-life examples which make it easy for the reader to take away ready expressions to software projects they will be working on. The book wil also serve as a reference guide which the reader can revisit when a question arises in using the query language. The handbook: --introduces the context in which SPARQL technology is to be used in software systems, -- explains the data model used with SPARQL technology; -- presents the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language, and demonstrates these with many examples; -- covers how a SPARQL protocol can be used to transfer SPARQL queries from client software to SPARQL services (server software); --shows how query results are encoded in wire transmission from the server to the client; --shows how the other Semantic Web technologies such ontologies (OWL, RDFS technologies in particular) can be used with SPARQL query language. --presents a programming interface called SPARQL4J for accessing SPARQL enabled software systems. *The first book on the new query language to be used in the Semantic Web for finding relevant metadata. *SPARQL is for the Semantic Web what SQL is for relational databases, and this is the book by the key figure in the development of this standard query language. *Perfect tutorial for this new language for the SQL and XML developers who need a more flexible data model.Saarela, Janne is the author of 'Sparql Handbook ', published 2009 under ISBN 9780123695475 and ISBN 0123695473.