Re: ANN: Querying the complete Semantic Web with SPARQL

This sounds really interesting...

I was wondering whether you thought of setting up a SPARQL-like endpoint
for your system, a bit like SPARQler. People could then experiment with
this without going through the trouble of installing the system...

Ivan

P.S. I have added an entry to http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWebTools

Chris Bizer wrote:
> Hi all,
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> we have released a Semantic Web Client Library which represents the
> complete Semantic Web as a single RDF graph.
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> The library enables applications to query this global graph using
> SPARQL- and find(SPO) queries. To answer queries, the library
> dynamically retrieves information from the Semantic Web by dereferencing
> HTTP URIs and by following rdfs:seeAlso links using a similar
> directed-browsing algorithm as the Tabulator browser. The library is
> written in Java and is based on the Jena framework.
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> For example, executing the SPARQL query "Find all developers of the
> Tabulator project, their email addresses and other projects they are
> involved in." against Semantic Web results into information about 8
> developers. To answer the query, the library retrieves 15 documents from
> the Semantic Web.
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> More information about the library is found on the project's website:
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> http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/
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> Cheers,
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> Chris Bizer
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> Richard Cyganiak
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> Tobias Gauss
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> --
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> Chris Bizer
> 
> Freie Universität Berlin
> 
> Phone: +49 30 838 54057
> 
> Mail: chris@bizer.de
> 
> Web: www.bizer.de
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:47:03 UTC