Some SPARQL in Your Life

By Melody Smith|July 18th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off

SPARQL is a protocol and query language for the Semantic Web. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate OGC standard “GeoSPARQL: A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data”. The candidate standard defines spatial extensions to the W3C’s SPARQL protocol and RDF query language.

GeoSPARQL defines a vocabulary for representing geospatial data in RDF, and it defines an extension to SPARQL for processing geospatial data. This standard serves as a common target for vendors to implement and provides rich functionality for building geospatial applications.

We found this interesting topic in Directions Magazine in their article, “OGC Seeks Comment on candidate GeoSPARQL standard.” I also have to admit I am charmed by the “bling” reference in the acronym.

Melody K. Smith

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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Some SPARQL in Your Life