SPARQL W3C

clipped from www.w3.org SPARQL Protocol for RDF SPARQL is a query language and protocol for RDF. This document specifies the SPARQL Protocol for RDF; it uses WSDL 2.0 to describe a means for conveying SPARQL queries to an SPARQL query processing service and returning the query results to the entity that requested them. This protocol was developed by the W3C RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG), part of the Semantic Web Activity as described in the activity statement . Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 SPARQL Protocol 2.1 SparqlQuery Interface 2.2 HTTP Bindings 2.3 SOAP Bindings 3 Policy Considerations 3.1 Security 3.2 Privacy 4 References 4.1 Normative 4.2 Informative 5 Acknowledgments