RQL: A declarative query language for RDF

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 592-603

  Karvounarakis, Gregory ^a   Alexaki, Sofia ^a   Christophides, Vassilis ^a   Plexousakis, Dimitris ^a   Scholl, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESSING; DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; DECLARATIVE QUERY LANGUAGES; E-MARKETPLACES; FORMAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE PORTALS; LABELED GRAPHS; RDF QUERY LANGUAGE; RDF SCHEMAS; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK; SCHEMAS; SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS; STILL MISSING; TYPING SYSTEMS; WEB CONTENT; WEB DATA; WEB RESOURCES;

LINGUISTICS; METADATA; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0037807107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/511446.511524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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