Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 28,900 words
To read before this meeting:
Focus on section 2.2 (“Web of Data: Concepts”) on pages 16–40. Feel free to skim or skip the rest. If you’re really pressed for time, just read section 2.2.1 (“Data”) on pages 16–21.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 15,000 words
To read before this meeting:
Class will not meet.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 17,300 words
To read before this meeting:
Focus on section 1.2 (“The Current Web”), pages 6–14.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 35,400 words
There is a lot of reading for this week.
The first three readings (“What is RDF?” “Graph data model” and “RDF data model”) summarize what you need to know.
The second two readings (“Resource Description Framework” and “RDF—The basis of the Semantic Web”) go into more depth. Stop at the end of section 3.7 of Hogan, “Resource Description Framework.” Skip sections 3.6 and 3.8 of Allemang et al., “RDF—The basis of the Semantic Web.”
The last reading (“RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax”) is more for your reference than something you need to read through.
To read before this meeting:
Class will not meet.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 31,300 words
The word count for this week is misleading because last week you (hopefully) already read most of the second and third readings (“Resource Description Framework” and “RDF—The basis of the Semantic Web”). This week, read the rest of Hogan, “Resource Description Framework,” starting with section 3.8, and section 3.8 of Allemang et al., “RDF—The basis of the Semantic Web.”
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 42,600 words
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 23,900 words
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👻 Halloween gremlins sabotaged our SPARQL server 👹
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 75,600 words
I certainly don’t expect you to read every page of the readings for this week.
Start with the two chapters from Learning SPARQL, which are a gentle and accessible introduction to SPARQL basics. As you read, try out the queries on our SPARQL server.
“Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners” and “A Gentle Introduction to the Wikidata Query Service” will introduce you to using SPARQL to query Wikidata, which has some quirks that make it a bit different from most other SPARQL databases. “Wikidata:SPARQL Query Service/Queries” has lots and lots of examples—I often start here when trying to figure out how to query Wikidata, and modify an example query until I get what I want.
The Allemang et al. and Hogan chapters are long, but useful for getting a deeper understanding of SPARQL.
Finally, the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language specification is a useful reference, but not something I expect you to read top to bottom.
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 27,200 words
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 30,700 words
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 10,000 words
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