Re: How do you explore a SPARQL Endpoint?

On 2015-01-22 15:09, Juan Sequeda wrote:
> Assume you are given a URL for a SPARQL endpoint. You have no idea what
> data is being exposed.
>
> What do you do to explore that endpoint? What queries do you write?
>
> Juan Sequeda
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> www.juansequeda.com
>

I suspect that the obligatory query that everyone is dying to know is to 
get a distinct count of subjects. /me mumbles..

More realistically:

* I would say that getting a sense of which vocabularies/ontologies are 
used is a good way to dive ib, and to come up with more 
specific/useful/interesting queries thereafter.

* Look up and see which VoID information is available. Related to above 
point, e.g., void:vocabulary.

* Check whether there is sufficient human-readable labels for the 
significant portion of the instances.

* Check triples pertaining to provenance.

* Check if there are sufficient interlinks to resources that presumably 
external to the ___domain in which the endpoint is at.


Sorry, I'm not going to write out SPARQL queries here. Need to preserve 
brain-cells for the remainder of the day.

-Sarven
http://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:27:07 UTC