[OpenGLAM] getty thesaurus, linked data, and sparql

Sat Feb 22 05:17:35 UTC 2014

On 21/02/14 08:50 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> 
> Put another way, is there some set of basic/rudimentary queries I can
> send to SPARQL endpoints, get results, and begin to drill down
> without really knowing the ontologies? I’m stymied in this regard.

SPARQL can be painful both in theory and in practice.

The O'Reilly book on SPARQL is good, as are:

http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/sparql-by-example

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2930246/exploratory-sparql-queries

The example queries at the bottom of:

http://vocab.getty.edu/sparql

show starting points. There's a placeholder for the Ontology documents
on the site, so hopefully those will cover this sort of thing.

Downloadable RDF would also be great... :-)

- Rob.