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Opera's SPARQL Engine on XTech

By Kjetil Kjernsmo. Friday, 19. May 2006, 13:33:48

Leigh Dodds, one of the foremost in the RDF and SPARQL field gave a presentation titled "SPARQLing Services" at the XTech conference in Amsterdam. He has also published his slides. In his presentation, Leigh argued why SPARQL could very well power "Web 2.0" with data. In some of his examples, he used Opera's SPARQL engine.

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Comments

lepapeenslip # 19. May 2006, 14:05

Is it possible to use SPARQL to query several geographically distant models at once?

kjetilk # 23. May 2006, 08:37

lepapeenslip: not in the current implementation, but I think that is planned for the future, either by harvesting resources, or by joining them using named graphs.