Last summer I asked around to gather favorite SPARQL queries to help me
put together a SPARQL By Example tutorial/presentation. The only
criterion was that the queries need to be runnable on the Web today.
(i.e., no theoretic queries and no queries that rely on private data sets)
A bunch of people responded with some great queries, and the result was
the set of slides at [1].
I'll be giving a version of this talk as a tutorial at SemTech in a
couple of weeks, and in preparation for that I'm going through and
updating some of the queries[2], adding some more ones, etc. To that
end, I wanted to turn to the community once again to ask if people have
any new, interesting SPARQL queries or SPARQL'able data sets that they
might care to share.
I welcome simple queries or complex queries, as well as interesting data
sets with SPARQL endpoints, even without specific queries. Of course,
I'll be contributing the results back to the community for others to
(hopefully) benefit from.
In addition to queries that use only standard SPARQL, I'm also
interested in queries that use implementation-specific extensions,
particularly if they involve capabilities that the SPARQL 2 Working
Group is working to standardize[3].
thanks very much!
Lee
[1] http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/2008/09/sparql-by-example/
[2] Somehow a query about Senators McCain and Obama's voting records
seems a bit less relevant now.
[3] http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/FeatureProposal
