Re: DBpedia SPARQL Endpoint and Transitive Queries

Hi,

On 8 Oct 2009, at 16:09, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> All,
>
> The intersection of Leigh Dodds SPARQL extensions survey [1],  
> imminent official release of Virtuoso 6.0 (DBpedia basic and Live  
> already use this, ditto LOD Cache, and B3S public endpoints), and an  
> old post by Bernard Vatant re. skos:broader, has lead to this  
> simple, but powerful example of  Virtuoso's Transitive Option  
> extension for SPARQL :
>
> #Transitive Option Off
>
> PREFIX p: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
> PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
> PREFIX category: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:>
> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
> PREFIX geo: <http://www.georss.org/georss/>
>
> SELECT DISTINCT ?m ?n ?p ?d
> WHERE {
>  ?m rdfs:label ?n.
>  ?m skos:subject ?c.
>  ?c skos:broader category:Churches_in_Paris.
>  ?m p:abstract ?d.
>  ?m geo:point ?p
> FILTER ( lang(?n) = "fr" )
> FILTER ( lang(?d) = "fr" )
> }
>
> #Transitive Option On
>
> PREFIX p: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
> PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
> PREFIX category: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:>
> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
> PREFIX geo: <http://www.georss.org/georss/>
>
> SELECT DISTINCT ?m ?n ?p ?d
> WHERE {
>  ?m rdfs:label ?n.
>  ?m skos:subject ?c.
>  ?c skos:broader category:Churches_in_Paris OPTION (TRANSITIVE).
>  ?m p:abstract ?d.
>  ?m geo:point ?p
> FILTER ( lang(?n) = "fr" )
> FILTER ( lang(?d) = "fr" )
> }
>
>

As skos:broader is not transitive [1] but its superproperty  
skos:broaderTransitive is, shouldn't the second query be

  ?c skos:broaderTransitive category:Churches_in_Paris OPTION  
(TRANSITIVE).

Best,

Alex.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/#L2413



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National University of Ireland, Galway
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Received on Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:28:35 UTC