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<dateCreated>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:00:36 GMT</dateCreated>
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<ownerName>Tom Morris</ownerName>
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<body><outline text="&lt;a href= &quot;http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2009/05/tom-morris-sparql-and-semweb-stuff-tech.html&quot;&gt; Mia&lt;/a&gt; has put up notes from my talk on Saturday about SPARQL." created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:36:47 GMT"/>
<outline text="SPARQL lightning talk connections" created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"><outline text="At the weekend, I gave a lightning talk at OpenHackLondon about SPARQL. Here are the bits I want to make public. Enjoy." created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"/><outline text="First, a memetic bit: &quot;SPARQL is to SQL as dynamic typing is to static. SQL was designed back in the age of the Dukes of Hazzard, not the age of Facebook.&quot;" created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"/><outline text="I demonstrated the use of SPARQL with &lt;a href= &quot;http://dbpedia.org/&quot;&gt;dbpedia&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href= &quot;http://dbpedia.org/sparql&quot;&gt;endpoint&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href= &quot;http://libris.kb.se/&quot;&gt;LIBRIS&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href= &quot;http://lab3.libris.kb.se/sparql&quot;&gt;endpoint&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href= &quot;http://mulgara.org&quot;&gt;Mulgara&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"/><outline text="The queries I ran are up on Gist: &lt;a href= &quot;http://gist.github.com/104643&quot;&gt;dbpedia programming languages with English titles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/61066&quot;&gt;dbpedia streets in London query&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href= &quot;http://gist.github.com/60829&quot;&gt;dbpedia query for listing populated cities&lt;/a&gt;, a rather goofy &lt;a href= &quot;http://gist.github.com/110983&quot;&gt;dbpedia beauty pageant winner query&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/110985&quot;&gt;LIBRIS query for getting books by author&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href= &quot;http://gist.github.com/110987&quot;&gt;a query for my Mulgara store of BBC data to get back a list of people on TV&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href= &quot;http://gist.github.com/110988&quot;&gt;a Mulgara TQL query for doing the equivalent of SELECT COUNT(*)&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"/><outline text="Yves Raimond, &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/moustaki&quot;&gt;@moustaki&lt;/a&gt;, pointed out that the BBC data is now queryable through &lt;a href= &quot;http://api.talis.com/stores/bbc-backstage/services/sparql&quot;&gt;this endpoint&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"/><outline text="Just some links I wanted to point to: &lt;a href= &quot;http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Category:Features&quot;&gt;SPARQL 2 Feature request wiki page&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href= &quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARUL&quot;&gt;SPARUL&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:41 GMT"/></outline></body>
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