SPARQL

Query language for RDF data, a W3C Recommendation since January 2008; SPARQL 1.1 followed in 2013.

Read the specification ↗ w3.org

Part of threads Querying a web, not a database proposes; Unknown or false? workaround

builds on

• Named graph concept 2005 [src]
• RDF standard 1999 [src]

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

alternative to

• GQL standard 2024 [src]
• GraphQL standard 2015 [src]

edited by

• Andy Seaborne person [src]
• Eric Prud'hommeaux person [src]

subject of

• Executing SPARQL Queries over the Web of Linked Data writing 2009 [src]
• Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL writing 2009 [src]
• SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action? writing 2013 [src]
• SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions writing 2024 [src]
• Triple Pattern Fragments: A Low-cost Knowledge Graph Interface for the Web writing 2016 [src]

built upon by

• BBC dynamic semantic publishing project 2010 [src]
• GeoSPARQL standard 2012 [src]
• Triplestore concept [src]

implemented by

• UniProt project 2002 [src]
• Virtuoso project 1998 [src]
• Wikidata Query Service project 2015 [src]

succeeded by

• SPARQL 1.1 standard 2013 [src]

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-rdf-sparql-query-20080115/