An Introduction to RDF and SPARQL 1.2

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More than a decade after their release as W3C recommendations, RDF and SPARQL will be updated to version 1.2. The tutorial explains changes.

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Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
– UTC
Location:
Nara, Japan
Speakers:
Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C / Inria, France; Ruben Taelman, IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium; Enrico Franconi, KRDB research centre for Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; Ora Lassila, Amazon Web Services, USA
Category:
Data
Website:
International Semantic Web Conference 2025 (ISWC)

Note that the tutorial's precise time and date will be confirmed closer to the conference.

The RDF 1.1 and SPARQL 1.1 specifications are foundational to Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web research. More than a decade after their last versions were released as W3C recommendations, they are scheduled to receive an update to version 1.2. For the last 3 years, the RDF-star Working Group has been working on these updates, with as primary focus the ability to make statements about other statements.

The goal of this tutorial is to provide a crash course into RDF 1.2 and SPARQL 1.2, for people that already know RDF 1.1 and SPARQL 1.1. We will discuss the history and motivations for this update, explain the new triple terms and reification concepts, and give an overview of the other changes that were included in the relevant specifications.

As outcomes, participants will understand the motivations for these changes, and they will be able to make use of it in their future work.

See the tutorial's program and materials.