Enabling the Distributed Family Tree

This is the official research blog for the Distributed Family Tree, an open network of genealogical data and metadata.  In a nutshell, the big idea is that we can combine all available genealogical information on the Internet into a single distributed network.  The foundation for this network is the substance of the Master's Thesis that I am currently working on.

SPARQL Revisited

by Hilton on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 | 579 Views

I received an e-mail from the Good Doctor last week wherein he mentioned that he was looking forward to seeing my SPARQL work.  The funny thing is, when I restructured the database I stripped all the SPARQL code out.  It was just easier to work with directly.  Well, seeing as he is my chief patron and benefactor, I felt that it behooved me to set aside my grand plans for this Friday, if only for a day, and quickly whip up some SPARQL action.  Voila:

SPARQL View

It only supports SELECT statements sans OPTIONAL and FILTER clauses, but the Good Doctor was pleased.  He’ll be using it next month in the database class that he is currently teaching.  And once again, thanks to Richard Cyganiak for the original sparql2sql library.

Technorati Tags: ,

Filed in Genesis, SPARQL
Comment feed for this post

    Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. Permalink to this trackback Enabling the Distributed Family Tree » Blog Archive » New! Free! SPARQL, PGVAgent, and Agent Writing Guide on March 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    […] As I mentioned previously, the Good Doctor is currently teaching a database class and wants to expose his students to RDF.  […]

Leave a Reply