Re: Musings on SPARQL Queries

Phil,

I was just playing/testing some SPARQL endpoints on my machine, and I
glanced through your document...

I ran the following query:

BASE <http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf>
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX wdr: <http://www.w3.org/2007/05/powder#>
PREFIX ex: <http://example.org#>

SELECT ?maker ?rs ?setProp ?setValue ?ds ?dsProp ?dsValue ?issued
?validUntil
FROM <http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf>
WHERE {
  <http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf#DR3>
foaf:hasMaker ?maker .
  <http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf#DR3>
wdr:hasScope ?rs.
  <http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf#DR3>
wdr:hasDescription ?ds .

  OPTIONAL {?rs ?setProp ?setValue} .
  OPTIONAL {?ds ?dsProp ?dsValue} .
  OPTIONAL
{<http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf#DR3>
dcterms:issued ?issued} .
  OPTIONAL
{<http://www.fosi.org/projects/powder/multiple_examples.rdf#DR3>
wdr:validUntil ?validUntil}
}


On Joseki and on Virtuoso Open Link, and both gave a correct result, see
the attached HTML file. As you could see, I had difficulties in getting
BASE working correctly (at least on Virtuoso), I will have to test it
more, but as far as your document goes, I think the conclusion should be
that query #8 should work.

I hope it helps

Ivan



Phil Archer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As trailed earlier, I've been playing with SPARQL queries on the sort of
> data we're starting to build. In particular, I want to see how the
> resource grouping issue tumbles out and whether the queries become so
> ridiculous as to warrant a serious consideration of an alternative
> approach.
> 
> To this end I've created a file full of DRs with different (and
> increasingly complex) Resource Sets and worked through some test
> queries. It's not finished yet but I've been at it all day and we're
> heading into a holiday weekend so it'll have to do for now. I believe,
> however, that with a small number of queries it's possible to extract
> all the necessary data from a DR, including all the attribution, scope
> and description data. Obviously it gets more difficult if you have
> complex data but essentially, it's looking quite simple - I think.
> 
> Cédric - can I ask you to upload this to the (public) web space please.
> Meanwhile, it's attached.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Phil.

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