Re: What does SPARQL stand for?

On 10/6/2011 7:50 AM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
> Dear list,
> please clarify. I really hate not being able to answer simple questions.
> Here are the inconsistencies I found:
>
> *S*PARQL *P*rotocol *a*nd *R*DF *Q*uery *L*anguage
> from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
> (No authorative reference for the acronym found though)

This is correct.

> *S*imple *P*rotocol *a*nd *R*DF *Q*uery *L*anguage
> from Jeffrey Pollock. Semantic Web for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
> Chichester, West
> Sussex, Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

I'm not sure where this came from.

> *SPA*RQL *Q*uery *L*anguage for *R*DF
> from http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

This is specifically the name of the query part of SPARQL. It's not what 
the acronym stands for.

> *S*PARQL *P*rotocol for *R*DF
> from http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-protocol/

This is specifically the name of the protocol part of SPARQL. It's not 
what the acronym stands for.

> What is the best and most recent document I should reference in an
> academic paper?

This I can't help you with, unfortunately.

Lee

> All the best,
> Sebastian
>
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Received on Thursday, 6 October 2011 12:21:56 UTC