SPARQL-ST: Extending SPARQL to Support Spatiotemporal Queries
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Book Chapter
Abstract
Spatial and temporal data is plentiful on the Web, and Semantic Web technologies have the potential to make this data more accessible and more useful. Semantic Web researchers have consequently made progress towards better handling of spatial and temporal data. SPARQL, the W3C-recommended query language for RDF, does not adequately support complex spatial and temporal queries. In this work, we present the SPARQL-ST query language. SPARQL-ST is an extension of SPARQL for complex spatiotemporal queries. We present a formal syntax and semantics for SPARQL-ST. In addition, we describe a prototype implementation of SPARQL-ST and demonstrate the scalability of this implementation with a performance study using large real-world and synthetic RDF datasets.
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Publication Info
Published in Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web, 2011, pages 61-86.
© Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web 2011, Springer
APA Citation
Perry, M., Jain, P., & Sheth, A. P. (2011). SPARQL-ST: Extending SPARQL to Support Spatiotemporal Queries. Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web, 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9446-2_3