David Huynh wrote:
Kingsley,

Thanks for the resources and the detailed explanation! Looks like all the pieces are there!
Yes, and if you could be enticed into a generic UI for SPARQL QBE that applies to the Linked Data Web even better :-) Of course, Freebase are Linked Data friendly, so even more of the pieces are in place :-)

Kingsley

David

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
David Huynh wrote:
Thanks for the link, Juan.

Just curious, even if I know SPARQL, how do I (as a new user) know which properties and types there are in the data? And what URIs to use for what?
David,

Not speaking for Jaun, but seeking to answer the question you posed.

Our iSPARQL interface takes the view that:

1. You lookup vocabularies and ontologies of interest before constructing triple patterns since the terms need to come from somewhere 2. You then you use the ontology/vocabulary tree to drag and drop classes over Subject and Object nodes 3. Do the same thing re. properties by selecting them and dropping them over the connectors (predicates) 4. Repeat the above until you've completely painted an SPO graph of what you seek.

BTW - the pattern in steps 2-4 above originated from RDF Author, and we simply adopted it for SPARQL (following a skype session I had with Danbri years ago re. the need for SPARQL QBE). Note: RDF Author allowed you to write Triples directly into RDF information resources via their URLs. Which means the same UI works fine for SPARUL (writing to Quad Store via its internal Graph IRI or Web Information Resource URL).

Links:

1.  http://rdfweb.org/people/damian/RDFAuthor/Tutorial/ -- RDF Author

Kingsley

David

Juan Sequeda wrote:
You may want to check out a tool that we are working on: SQUIN

http://squin.informatik.hu-berlin.de/SQUIN/

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com <http://www.juansequeda.com>
www.semanticwebaustin.org <http://www.semanticwebaustin.org>


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:18 PM, David Huynh <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi all,

    Admittedly this is somewhat of a tease and shameless
    self-promotion :-) but I think there are a few interesting
    concepts in the query editor for Freebase that I've been working
on that can be very useful for querying and consuming LOD data sets:

      http://www.freebase.com/app/queryeditor/about

    Or maybe I missed it totally--is there anything similar for
    writing SPARQL queries over LOD?

    Cheers,

    David












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