Hi, currently with Apache Jena you can run a SPARQL query and get your results, in case of a SELECT query, in text, XML, JSON, CSV or TSV format.
This is very convenient as people often want to use other tools to visualize or analyze their results. Sometimes, people want to load data into a spreadsheet, either Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc. This can be currently achieved via CSV and TSV which, as far as I know, are supported by a lot of spreadsheet software (including Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice/LibreOffice). For data publishers, it's a good idea to provide the same data in different formats, however, I am not sure there isn't a need for strong proprietary data formats (given we provide CSV and TSV already). What do you think? Do you know open source projects using ARQ and providing a ResultSet to spreadsheet feature? By the way, in Apache you can find two useful projects which can help you doing this: - Apache POI - http://poi.apache.org/ - Apache ODF Toolkit (incubating) - http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ Thanks, Paolo
