vSPARQL: A view definition language for the semantic web

Marianne Shaw, Landon T. Detwiler, Natalya Noy, James Brinkley, Dan Suciu
2011 Journal of Biomedical Informatics  
Translational medicine applications would like to leverage the biological and biomedical ontologies, vocabularies, and data sets available on the semantic web. We present a general solution for RDF information set reuse inspired by database views. Our view definition language, vSPARQL, allows applications to specify the exact content that they are interested in and how that content should be restructured or modified. Applications can access relevant content by querying against these view
more » ... ions. We evaluate the expressivity of our approach by defining views for practical use cases and comparing our view definition language to existing query languages.
doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.08.008 pmid:20800106 pmcid:PMC3042057 fatcat:7anb7nvu25fr7ki5acp6pb2vii