Re: Fwd: ANN: asqc - A Simple SPARQL Query Client

On 2/26/13 3:43 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> FYI
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Graham Klyne* <GK@ninebynine.org <mailto:GK@ninebynine.org>>
> Date: 25 February 2013 13:28
> Subject: ANN: asqc - A Simple SPARQL Query Client
> To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>>
>
>
> A simple command-line utility for issuing/testing SPARQL queries.
>
> https://github.com/gklyne/asqc
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asqc
>
> This is a simple utility designed to be used in Unix-style shell 
> script pipelines - queries can be chained, with bindings from a SELECT 
> query constraining results in the next, or filtering RDF data through 
> CONSTRUCT queries.  There are some usage examples at 
> https://github.com/gklyne/asqc.
>
> I've had this kicking around for a while now (I initially delayed 
> announcing it until it was mostly working, then forgot).
>
> I use it mainly for query testing and/or shell scripts, and scratching 
> similar itches - more as a developer tool than a polished product. 
>  The heavy lifting of SPARQL query processing is handled by rdflib 
> (https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib) and friends.
>
> There are still some rough edges (error reporting isn't great), but it 
> does seem to mostly achieve what it says on the box.
>
> Acknowledgement: this tool was developed in part through my work on 
> the EU-funded Wf4Ever project (http://www.wf4ever-project.org).
>
> Enjoy!
>
> #g
> --
>
>
Cool!

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