iSPARQL Querying Tutorial with SPARQL Query type "SELECT".

This tutorial shows how to execute a SPARQL query with type "SELECT". You can find a rich list of Virtuoso SPARQL Queries in the References section.

iSPARQL Querying Tutorial with SPARQL Query type "SELECT".

Enter and execute a query
Execute another query
References

ODS SPARQL Queries
ODS Applications SPARQL Queries
Other Virtuoso SPARQL Queries

Enter and execute a query

Choose a SPARQL query from the References list. For this example, let's use the SPARQL query, which dumps all Weblog Posts for the ODS Member "demo". You can find this SPARQL Query in either the ODS SPARQL Queries or the ODS Weblog SPARQL Queries list.

PREFIX    rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> 
PREFIX   sioc:  <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> 
PREFIX  sioct:  <http://rdfs.org/sioc/types#>
PREFIX    xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> 
PREFIX    dct:  <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX    dcc:  <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
SELECT DISTINCT  ?forum_name
                 ?post
                 ?title
                 ?cr
                 ?url 
FROM <http://demo.openlinksw.com/dataspace> 
WHERE
  { 
    ?forum  a                  sioct:Weblog                                      .
    ?forum  sioc:id            ?forum_name                                       .
    ?forum  sioc:scope_of      ?role                                             .
    ?role   sioc:function_of   <http://demo.openlinksw.com/dataspace/demo#this>  .
    ?forum  sioc:container_of  ?post                                             . 
    OPTIONAL { ?post  dct:title    ?title }  .
    OPTIONAL { ?post  dcc:created  ?cr    }  .
    OPTIONAL { ?post  sioc:link    ?url   }  .
  }
ORDER BY DESC (?cr)

Go to iSPARQL demo page.
By default, user name demo and password demo should be shown in the Login form. Click OK.
You will now see the iSPARQL home page, with QBE tab open and default graph elements on the Canvas. Click the Clear Pane icon on the toolbar to empty the Canvas.
Change the Data Source URI field value on the QBE tab to the Graph of the database against which you want to execute your query, i.e., for this example -- http://demo.openlinksw.com/dataspace
Click the Advanced tab.
Change the Graph value to also be http://demo.openlinksw.com/dataspace, and enter (copy-and-paste) the query chosen above into the SPARQL Query text-area:
Click the Run Query button on the Advanced tab.
The Result sub-tab shown below the Advanced SPARQL Query Working Canvas will present the results of executing our SPARQL Query, by default in Human readable format.
Change the results table column widths by dragging the ends of the column labels.
Change the output viewable mode to Machine readable, if desired
View the SPARQL Query as Graph model by clicking the Load Query to QBE button shown in the Toolbar with Result, SPARQL Params, Response, and Query sub-tabs.

Execute another query

Now we will enter a different SPARQL query to execute, to show how the navigation buttons (grayed-out blue arrows in the toolbar of the Results tab) work. You can find this SPARQL Query in the ODS SPARQL Queries list and also in the ODS Feed Manager SPARQL Queries list. It should obtain a dump of all Posts within an ODS-Feeds Data Space for user "demo".

PREFIX   sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#>
PREFIX  sioct: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/types#>
PREFIX    dct: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX    dcc: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
SELECT  ?forum_name
        ?channel
        ?item_title
        ?created
FROM <http://demo.openlinksw.com/dataspace>
WHERE
  {
    ?forum    a                  sioct:SubscriptionList                            ;
              sioc:id            ?forum_name                                       .
    ?forum    sioc:scope_of      ?role                                             . 
    ?role     sioc:function_of   <http://demo.openlinksw.com/dataspace/demo#this>  .
    ?forum    sioc:parent_of     ?channel                                          .
    ?channel  sioc:container_of  ?post                                             .
    OPTIONAL { ?post  dct:title    ?item_title }  .
    OPTIONAL { ?post  dcc:created  ?created    }  .
  }
LIMIT 20

Click to the Advanced tab. Change the SPARQL Query to the above.
Click the Run Query button on the Advanced toolbar.
The Result sub-tab will present the results of the query.
With the blue navigation buttons shown after the Query sub-tab, you can view the results of the first, previous, next and last executed queries. Click the furthest-left blue arrow.
The results of the first query we executed -- all Weblog Posts for the ODS Member "demo" -- will be shown. Note that the content of the SPARQL Query area of the Advanced tab has also changed to match.

References

ODS SPARQL Queries

ODS Applications SPARQL Queries